From 42ce6475d90416d21ea11f59e24c23e73747a430 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Johann Visagie Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2001 13:55:56 +0000 Subject: - The port devel/py-functional has been repo-copied to devel/py-xoltar-toolkit, so: - Update devel/py-xoltar-toolkit to the latest version (2001.06.01) of the Xoltar Toolkit, which bundles an updated functional.py module with some supporting modules. - Remove all files from devel/py-functional - Update the category Makefile to reflect the change. Approved by: Jacques Vidrine , maintainer --- devel/py-xoltar-toolkit/pkg-descr | 18 ++++++++---------- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) (limited to 'devel/py-xoltar-toolkit/pkg-descr') diff --git a/devel/py-xoltar-toolkit/pkg-descr b/devel/py-xoltar-toolkit/pkg-descr index 5d61c960fe35..ef7776b3481c 100644 --- a/devel/py-xoltar-toolkit/pkg-descr +++ b/devel/py-xoltar-toolkit/pkg-descr @@ -1,14 +1,12 @@ -A Python module which provides support for a functional style of Python -programming. +The Xoltar Toolkit contains utility modules for Python, including functional +programming support, lazy expressions and data structures, and thread pools. It includes support for closures, curried functions, lazy expressions, lazy tuples (functional programming languages call these lazy lists, but -since lists are mutable in Python, tuples are closer in meaning), and -lazy equivalents for map, filter, reduce, and zip. Also includes some -higher-order functions for composing functions and such. +since lists are mutable in Python, tuples are closer in meaning), and lazy +equivalents for map, filter, reduce, and zip. It also includes some +higher-order functions for composing functions. -To use, just - - import functional - -WWW: http://sourceforge.net/projects/xoltar-toolkit/ +Author: Bryn Keller +WWW: http://sourceforge.net/projects/xoltar-toolkit/ +See also: http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-prog.html -- cgit v1.2.3