before and after methods

[Pascal Costanza]

> On 18 May 2017, at 11:05, Didier Verna <didier at lrde.epita.fr> wrote:
> 
> Pascal Costanza wrote:
> 
>> I’m just guessing, but one reason I can think of is that almost all of
>> the built-in method combinations (except for standard and progn) are
>> applicative. before/after methods don’t have a direct impact on the
>> return value of a generic function call, so their primary purpose is
>> to allow for specifying side effects, which presumably doesn’t make a
>> lot of sense for applicative combinators.
>> 
>> Does that make any sense?
> 
>  Hmmm. Nope :-) 

Darn. :-)

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Pascal Costanza


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