Re: Looking for new language features (re-elaboration)

<brangdon@cix.compulink.co.uk> wrote:
>
> Eiffel uses "once" functions that are evaluated at runtime, but
> only once.


That is, upon first call.


> I'm not sure its syntax is expressive enough to make tables
> really easy to work with.


Well, it's function calls, so you can write down about anything that
you want. But it doesn't provide compile-time evaluation, which is
one of the more important aspects of static data (moving computations
from run time to compile time).


Regards,
Joachim

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