[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: > "This is where K starts to set itself from apart from most of the > common programming languages in use today. You rarely write loops in K > (KDB is 100% loop-free), instead you use adverbs. An adverb modifies a > function, returning another function, changing the ways it operates > over its arguments and what it does with it's return values."
Doesn't sound too different from what closures do. Or lazy parameter passing. <rant> I'm not sure whether the K designer actually fits that description, but there are too many language designers around reinventing the wheel, arguing whether it should have seven, eight or thirteen sides... </rant> Regards, Jo -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list