Re: Inline VALOF

[Denis A Nicole <dan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 12 Dec 2006, Adam Sampson wrote:

> Has anybody:
> 
> - used inline VALOF in real code at all?
> 
> - found interesting uses for inline VALOF (that can't be obtained as
>   elegantly using named FUNCTIONs)?

Won't taking VALOF out upset the BCPL community? I think we once supported 
mixed occam1/BCPL on the Atari ST and maybe the Sinclair QL.

More seriously, could occam-pi support something like the B ? E : E'
syntax of C and Java or the E if B else E' of Python 2.5? It might be an
appropriate replacement.  


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