Re: [boost] Review: Lambda library - more technical analysis

From: David A. Greene (greened_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-03-26 16:20:17

Jaakko Jarvi wrote:

> I really do not understand the argument that  
> we should not include some feature, 
> because it is not possible to make it perfect.  
> My belief is, that if we have tools like this availble 
> and see that they are useful and also notice that they are not perfect,
> that is something that will boost language changes. 

I agree 100% with this.  Lambda statements can be very useful, I
think.  Many times I want to do different things in a for_each
loop based on the value being operated upon.  I don't want to
write a big if-else tree if a switch will execute more
efficiently.

I'm very, very pleased to hear that the Lambda/Phoenix teams
are working together.  This helps assuage the concerns I expressed
earlier.

                           -Dave

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