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Subject: Re: shootout: implementing an interpreter
Date: Sun, 8 Sep 2024 05:09:49 -0000 (UTC)
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Frank Buss wrote:

> Looks like the Haskell syntax is not good enough, because there is Template
> Haskell and doesn't look like it is invented by people who don't know how
> to write it with higher order functions, because there are functions in the
> Haskell List package like this:
> 
>   -- | The 'zip4' function takes four lists and returns a list of
>   -- quadruples, analogous to 'zip'.
>   zip4                  :: [a] -> [b] -> [c] -> [d] -> [(a,b,c,d)]
>   zip4                  =  zipWith4 (,,,)

Scheme

(map list '[2 3 4] '[20 30 40] '[200 300 400] '[2000 3000 4000])
  ===>
((2 20 200 2000) (3 30 300 3000) (4 40 400 4000))