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Subject: Re: [9fans] useful language extension, or no?
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Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2002 09:12:27 -0700
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In a strange twist, there is a C like language called Pike that
has experimented with all sorts of things like this. It has all kinds of 
neat and quirky things; like for example defining inline functions
right in the parameter list of a function call.  That might be a good place
for these types of experiments.   I was intrigued by it, but then Limbo
came along.

BTW, the Roxen web server is written in Pike.

At 03:33 PM 7/17/2002 +0200, Lucio De Re wrote:
>Just as I was getting brave enough to suggest:
>
>        for (x = 1 => { /* initialisation */ };
>                x < num => { /* termination */ };
>                x++ => { /* body */ };
>        );
>
>(syntactic spices to taste) ...