The D Programming Language

[gary sarff]

I am interested in "alternative" computer languages, and the ICON computer
language has structures such as are being talked about here, for a general
pick (nth) operator, the exact syntax of <expr>(x1,x2...xn) is used.
<expr> can be an integer constant, an arithmetic expression, the name of
a function in which case the function will be called with all the xi's as
arguments.  One can also use &'s instead of commas in which case expression
failure of an xi causes failure of the rest of the expressions and evaluation
halts there.  All three <expr> types are handled uniformly, (ICON is written
in C) they all pass through the same C code since something like
2(a,b,c) can be looked at as a function named "2" that returns its second
argument, (but all of them get evaluated anyway).


-- 
Gary Sarff           {uunet|ihnp4|philabs}!spies!argus!gsarff
To program is human, to debug is something best left to the gods.
"Spitbol?? You program in a language called Spitbol?"
  The reason computer chips are so small is that computers don't eat much.