[Haskell-cafe] Re: mathematical notation and functional programming

Ben Rudiak-Gould Benjamin.Rudiak-Gould at cl.cam.ac.uk
Sun Feb 6 13:33:58 EST 2005


Dylan Thurston wrote:

 >Now that you mention it, Mathematica also has this notation, with
 >explicit delimiters; for instance, `(#+2)&' is the function of adding
 >two.

There's a Boost library supporting a similar notation in C++, with no 
explicit delimiters except to resolve ambiguity or work around C++ 
limitations:

    http://www.boost.org/doc/html/lambda.html

-- Ben



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