Re: [boost] phoenix::bind

Subject: Re: [boost] phoenix::bind
From: Joel de Guzman (joel_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-10-02 18:39:33

Steven Watanabe wrote:
> AMDG
> 
> Giovanni Piero Deretta wrote:
>>> I'm not an expert on modern FP, but the above lambda doesn't seem like a
>>> classic lambda (as in lambda calculus and Lisp) to me.
>>>
>>> Now that I've seen what Phoenix can do, I think that, were I to design a
>>> Boost.Lambda2, I'd probably go with a classic lambda of the form
>>>
>>>   lambda( _x, _y )[ _x + _y ]
>>>
>>> where the inner _x + _y is not a function object, and it is the lambda[]
>>> that turns it into one. (That is, the evaluation of an inner expression
>>> would be done with eval(expr, args...) and not with expr(args...).)
>>>     
>>
>> Oh yes please! Unfortunately I think that this would require major
>> surgery of phoenix...
>>   
> 
> +1 from me for that syntax.
> 
> I don't think that it will actually require major surgery after all.  It
> really just requires a small adjustment of the environment.

Hmmm... I don't think Phoenix requires a major surgery for this.

Regards,
-- 
Joel de Guzman
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