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Re: How to improve the readability of (any) LISP or any highlevel functional language to the level of FORTH ?

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From: LanX
Date: Sun, 02 Jan 2011 04:04
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> in Perl:
>   DB<1>  my $l; print  grep { $l = $_  if  $_ ne $l } (a,a,a,a,b,c,c,a,a,d,e,e,e,e);
> abcade

The same more explicit and less buggy

grep { if ($_ ne $l) { $l = $_ ; 1 } } LIST
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From: LanX <lanx.perl@googlemail.com>
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Subject: Re: How to improve the readability of (any) LISP or any highlevel
 functional language to the level of FORTH ?
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