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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 <xoltar@sourceforge.net> +WWW: http://sourceforge.net/projects/xoltar-toolkit/ +See also: http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-prog.html |