[racket] Applicable objects

David Van Horn <dvanhorn at ccs.neu.edu> writes:

> I learned that every Scala object that defines an apply method can be used
> as a function.  Cute.  It's nice to see a language emphasize the symmetry
> between objects and functions.

Note that this is actually bi-directional in Scala -- any object which
defines an unapply() method can be used in an ml-style pattern matching
statement as if it were an algebraic type constructor...

-- 
				Jim Wise
				jwise at draga.com
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