pipe
Joshua Gargus
schwa at fastmail.us
Sat Aug 25 17:05:44 UTC 2007
On Aug 25, 2007, at 6:17 AM, Fabio Filasieno wrote:
>
> obj message1: param
> | message2:param
> | message1: param
> | message2:param
> | message1: param
> | message2:param
> | message1: param
> | message2:param
> | message1: param
> | message2:param
> | message1: param
> | message2:param
>
> now some mix and match ...
>
> obj | send
> | left: a right:b
> | send | send | send
> | left: a right:b
> | message
>
> The pipe is needed to support a pipe&filter style of programming.
> That perfectly works with Smalltalk syntax, and truly
> opens up a better way of doing functional transformations.
>
This all seems very hypothetical. In what problem domain would you
end up writing code like this? I've never written such code myself,
and I haven't seen anyone else write such code either. Maybe that's
just because people shy away from it because of all of the
parentheses, but I can't accept that without a real code example to
support it.
Josh
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