Re: [ANN] Penlight 0.8

[spir <denis.spir@...>]

On Tue, 9 Mar 2010 09:53:30 +0200
steve donovan <steve.j.donovan@gmail.com> wrote:

> Penlight brings together a set of generally useful pure Lua modules,
> focusing on input data handling (such as reading configuration files),
> functional programming (such as map, reduce, placeholder
> expressions,etc), and OS path management.  Much of the functionality
> is inspired by the Python standard libraries.

Hello Steve,

I recently had the idea sequence and string find* methods may be designed as higher-order functions (like map, filter, reduce). Eg
   sequence:findall(assertionfunc)
Just a kind of generalisation. This by the way makes findall and filter synonyms! ;-)
What do you think?

Denis
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