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From:
Daniel Carrera
Date:
May 27, 2009 12:42
Subject:
Re: Amazing Perl 6
Message ID:
4A1D97A3.1000808@theingots.org
Mark J. Reed wrote:
> Note that of the examples given, only Perl 6 and Common Lisp do two things
> that help immensely simplify the result:
> 
> 1. reference the built-in * operator directly, without having to wrap it in
> a lambda expression;
> 2. actually name the function "!"

Yes, very neat. Haskell does that too, but I don't know if you can make 
the function a postfix in Haskell.

Daniel.

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