Re: The One-Letter Nested Function - a sample article for some kind of D "gems" website

[Nick Treleaven]

On 13/02/2012 14:21, Andrej Mitrovic wrote:

On 2/13/12, David Nadlinger<s...@klickverbot.at>  wrote:

This could never work without major changes to the language, because 'u'
cannot be assigned a type.

Yeah, the syntax is wrong. I found bear's post and the syntax:

alias (x =>  x ^^ 2) sqrTemplate;

So it would be:
alias ((a, b) =>  cast(ubyte)uniform(a, b)) u;

Here 'alias name = expression' syntax helps shed brackets:

alias u = (a, b) => cast(ubyte)uniform(a, b);

That looks nice IMO.