Re: Is anything easier to do in java than in lisp?

From: Thomas F. Bur*** (tfb_at_famine.OCF.Berkeley.EDU)
Date: 05/09/04 

Date: 09 May 2004 11:30:38 -0700

Antonio Menezes Leitao <Antonio.Leitao@evaluator.pt> writes:

> On Sat, 08 May 2004 19:38:34 -0800, RobertMaas wrote:
>
> > Suppose you want to find the first or last occurrance of some name,
> > ignoring case. In CL it's trivial:
> > (search "robert" "Hi, this is Robert Maas here" :test #'char-equal) how
> > would you do that in java except by writing your own nested loop from
> > scratch?? How come the java API doesn't already include this??
>
> My guess: because they were targeting C++ programmers. Is there a
> standard C++ function that does that?

Yep, the STL `search' function can take a BinaryPredicate. I think
they were looking in CL's direction when they came up with this one.

Now, it's possible that Java was targeting the C++ programmers who
would have written their own loop, anyway... 

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