On Tue, 23 Sep 2008 00:20:42 +0200, Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
> Welll..... There's still a bunch of syntax. Template instantiation, <<  
> and >> for I/O, etc.  I mean, compare Haskell add-up-a-list-of-numbers  
> to C++'s. Something like
>    fold (+) my_list
> to something like
>    for (j = std::list.begin(); j != std::list.end(); j = j.next())
>      i += j.value;
> or some such. :-)

'fold' (should probably be 'foldl1') is just a library function, not a  
language primitive. The corresponding C++ library function is  
'std::accumulate'.

   std::accumulate( my_list.begin(), my_list.end(), 0 );



-- 
FE

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