Re: [xml-dev] What is syntax lifting?
But map and friends are *procedural* (functional) lifting. Syntactic lifting, as far as I know, exists only in languages with syntactic abstraction (macros). My grasp of macros beyond C, defmacro, and syntax-rules isn't particularly good, though.
On Wed, Sep 4, 2019 at 12:48 PM Dimitre Novatchev <[email protected]> wrote:
And something more understandable ..."In languages which support first-class functions,mapmay be partially applied to lift a function that works on only one value to an element-wise equivalent that works on an entire container; for example,map squareis a Haskell function which squares each element of a list."On Wed, Sep 4, 2019 at 9:40 AM Dimitre Novatchev <[email protected]> wrote:On Wed, Sep 4, 2019 at 9:27 AM Costello, Roger L. <[email protected]> wrote:Hi Folks,
Recently I heard this term "syntax lifting" or sometimes just "lifting."
What do they mean?
/Roger
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