Re: Syntactic sugar for function parameters

[David Given <dg@...>]

Bret Victor wrote:
[...]
> Sure enough, in his talks, Guy Steele says 
> something like, "Because C++ was limited to ASCII, it had to
> do nonsensical operator overloading, such as using << for I/O.
> But because we have all of Unicode available to us, we can
> define more meaningful operators.  We can define an I/O operator
> with the Unicode symbol for a little picture of a printer."

⍎'⎕',∊N⍴⊂S←'←⎕←(3=T)⋎M⋏2=T←⊃+/(V⌽"⊂M),(V⊝"⊂M),(V,⌽V)⌽"(V,V←1⎺1)⊝"⊂M)'

No, that's not line noise. That's an implementation of Conway's Game Of Life
in one line of APL. I have yet to find any computer which can render all the
symbols.

(You can find a rendered version here: http://catpad.net/michael/apl/)

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