Re: Inline VALOF

["A.E.Lawrence" <A.E.Lawrence@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Denis A Nicole wrote:
> 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.  

Would this not violate the "razor"? Quite apart from my instinctive
repugnance :-)

Adrian