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On Sat, 6 Jul 2002, Trey Harris wrote:
: In a message dated Sat, 6 Jul 2002, Sean O'Rourke writes:
: > - Implicit currying variables ($^a etc) are in. I thought I had read
: > somewhere they were gone in favor of closure args, but people seem
: > to be using them, and they're not hard to put in.
:
: My understanding is that they still exist as placeholder variables, but
: no longer implicitly curry. I.e.,
:
: {$^a + $^b}
:
: is a synonym for
:
: -> $a, $b {$a + $b}
That is correct. Currying will be done via some explicit method.
Sentiment at yapc favored something resembling:
&incr := &add.assuming(x => 1);
Larry
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