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[Tanton Gibbs]

>Well, you dislike the Perl forms below for the sake of redundancy, but
>do you think they're more readable than using the full closed form
>construction?

I think the full closed form is more readable, especially because we 
have to remember that even though the perl forms are more similar to 
English, many of the best programmers do not speak English and are not 
subject to our language quirks.

>>(me talking here blah blah blah)

>You've merely said you code in a structural fashion here.  You haven't
>given a reason you can't code structurally in an OOPL.
>

Well, with Java, every thing was Object Based and there are no free 
methods, with your shorthand idea, I believe it becomes 
easier...however, I was wondering what the point would be in inheriting 
from a function?  Most of what you inherit are data and funcitonality.  
A function has parameters, but if you change the function, why not just 
write a new one?

>>> Thirdly, that value (1 in the previous case), might not be 
>>> statically
>
>> ...etc...I'll address this issue in another letter.  C++ does it by 
>> using binders...I'll research that solution more.
>
>I haven't heard of this before.  Is this a language feature?

No, it is a standard library feature, you can say something like

x = find_if( list, greater_than(7) );

and x will have the first argument greater than 7 in the list.  
Naturally, the second function is a class or function or function 
pointer and can change.

Tanton

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