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Re: alternative array syntax
Per Bothner <per@bothner.com> writes:
> Bruce Lewis wrote:
> > Yes there will
> > be people occasionally confused as to why they can't pass arrays to
> > higher-order functions that expect procedures as arguments, but that
> > cost is worth the benefit.
>
> No reason you can't pass an array to a higher-order function that
> expects an Applicable - and unless you do an explicit type test,
> no reason it wouldn't work automatically. E.g. we'd probably
> want to generalize map and for-each to work on Applicable objects.
Right. This occurred to me this morning as I was getting on the train.
There's no reason a higher-order function written in Scheme wouldn't
just work, so long as the apply procedure works on non-procedure
Applicables.
All the more reason to just go ahead and do it.