"Walter Bright" <newshou...@digitalmars.com> wrote in message
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> Nick Sabalausky wrote:
>> Yes, because in practice "a>b" must end up being evaluated in the wrong
>> scope. I've used std.algorithm very little so far, and yet I've still
>> found that limitation to be a problem.
>
> But it works fine for trivial lambdas, and if you're going beyond that,
> there's the fuller, complete syntax.
int foo(int x) { ... }
map!"foo(a) * 2" // Trivial lambda, but it fails
void bar(int delegate(int) dg) { ... }
bar("a+7") // Also fails
I don't think it's at all unreasonable to expect both of those to work with
a short lambda syntax. That neither of them do I think is a clear sign that
it's more of a clever hack than a real solution.
