Re: The beauty of LATEX

On 10/26/2011 4:40 PM, Daniel James wrote:
> On Tuesday, 25 October 2011, Joel de Guzman wrote:
> 
>     On 10/25/2011 6:01 PM, Daniel James wrote:
>     >
>     > Yes, that works. Although now when you want to pass the function as a
>     > parameter, you have to define another lambda function. Which could get
>     > very verbose - especially if the function takes a few arguments. It
> 
>     That's how it's done in lisp/scheme, it's foolish to go invent
>     something else.
> 
>     > also requires you to always know how many arguments a function takes.
> 
>     What's wrong with that? Ah, you want it like C function pointers
>     where you pass only f and be done with it? That's too limiting.
>     You can't even curry with it.
> 
> 
>  You can do that in Scheme:
> 
> http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/full-text/book/book-Z-H-12.html#%_sec_1.3.1

Oh right, I forgot about that. Yes, we can have both.

Regards,
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