Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> Chris Williams wrote:
>> I'm not sure whether the design of D 2.0 has stabilized as yet, but if not,
>> I would like to suggest the ability to create custom block types.
> [snip]
>
> FWIW we've been talking a long time ago about a simple lowering - if the
> last argument to a function is a delegate, allow moving the delegate's
> body outside of the function:
>
> fun(a, b, c) { body }
>
> |
> V
>
> fun((a, b, c) { body });
>
> As far as Walter and I could tell, there are no syntactical issues
> created by such a lowering. But we've been wrong about that in the past
> (me 10x more often than him).
>
>
> Andrei
Nevertheless, it would be fantastic!
This is exactly what can enables Ruby code to be so pleasant, though it is not
the same construct. And extensions methods of course :)
