13 Sep
2011
13 Sep
'11
5:44 p.m.
on Sun Sep 11 2011, "Jeffrey Lee Hellrung, Jr." <jeffrey.hellrung-AT-gmail.com> wrote:
On Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 12:01 AM, Ábel Sinkovics <abel@elte.hu> wrote:
I'd express it with "\x.\x.x" in lambda calculus. Inside the inner lambda abstraction "x" refers to the argument of the inner, not the outer one.
A while ago someone suggested (on the developers' list) adding de Bruijn indices [1] to Boost.Bind and/or Boost.MPL (and may have provided at least a sample implementation for one or the other, I'm not sure), which ( I think) would allow you to do what you want to do.
That was David Sankel, IIRC. -- Dave Abrahams BoostPro Computing http://www.boostpro.com