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Language Ideas

Name: Anonymous 2009-10-04 20:40

do you guys ever have ideas for features in programming languages that you have never seen implemented but would like to?
i'm sure some of you have. i can't be the only one.
share them here.
i'll start with an idea i had a little while ago; i wouldn't be surprised if some language such as perl had already thought of it though.

have you ever been stuck writing long if statements along the lines of: if(c == x || c == y || c == z)?
sure, it might not look so bad in this case since it's rather short. but what if you could abbreviate it?
something like: if(c == ||(x,y,z)), or perhaps if(c == (x || y || z)), or even if((x,y,z)||==(a,b,c)), which would expand to if(x == a || y == b || z == c).
wouldn't that be a nice little time saver?

Name: Anonymous 2009-10-07 4:30

>>47
I hadn't noticed that feature, but it just saves all the interactions(much like bpython or idle would for python) and misses the point of my original rant. Which is, "Why should I have to write a separate script to process my interactions, when my interpreter has all the bindings information built in?"

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