From: je@bton.ac.uk (John English)
Subject: Re: Ultimate Language feature list
Date: 1998/05/14
Date: 1998-05-14T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <6jenth$8eg@saturn.brighton.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: lns5stf4.fsf@lise.lavielle.com
Rainer Joswig (joswig@lise.lavielle.com) wrote:
: adam@irvine.com writes:
: > Well, as long as we're talking about what language features we want,
: > here's one I've always wanted: The ability to deal with sequences of
: > objects.
: Well, read Abelson and Sussman's classic book "Structure
: and Interpretation of Computer Programs". What you are
: looking for is called "streams".
Or possibly Icon-style generators? I've always thought that this
was a nice idea...
Here's another wish: closures.
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1998-05-13 0:00 Ultimate Language feature list adam
1998-05-14 0:00 ` Rainer Joswig
1998-05-14 0:00 ` John English [this message]
1998-05-14 0:00 ` Michael F Brenner
1998-05-14 0:00 ` Charles Hixson
1998-05-14 0:00 ` John McCabe
1998-05-15 0:00 ` Fergus Henderson
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1998-05-13 0:00 MSG
1998-05-13 0:00 ` Mark K. Gardner
1998-05-15 0:00 ` Jussi Santti
1998-05-13 0:00 ` Charles Hixson
1998-05-14 0:00 ` Eugene Mayevski
1998-05-13 0:00 ` John McCabe
1998-05-14 0:00 ` Mats Weber
1998-05-15 0:00 ` Nick Leaton
1998-05-15 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1998-05-16 0:00 ` Tarjei T. Jensen
1998-05-15 0:00 ` Chris Miller
1998-05-15 0:00 ` Franck Arnaud
1998-05-15 0:00 ` Stephen Bull
1998-05-20 0:00 ` John Volan
1998-05-15 0:00 ` Fergus Henderson
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