pipe

Fabio Filasieno fabio.filasieno at gmail.com
Sat Aug 25 18:54:14 UTC 2007


On Aug 25, 2007, at 8:23 PM, Jason Johnson wrote:

> On 8/25/07, Igor Stasenko <siguctua at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>> no, you can't do this with pipes. pipes is like a cascade, but with
>> same message passing semantics like regular continuation and allow  
>> you
>> to mix binary or keyword messages in one continuation without using
>> parenthesis:
>>
>> a + b | mixWith: c | squared + 5
>
> Well, pipe is probably a bad name for this.  It is a statement
> delimiter symbol like . or ; but it is short hand for allowing one to
> send a message to the result of the previous expression.
>

You are totally right ... since it was close to the Unix pipe I just  
called ... .pipe ...
But it would be a delimiter exactly as you say.

Fabio



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