On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 7:43 AM, Brendan Eich <[email protected]> wrote:
> On May 20, 2011, at 9:55 PM, Peter Michaux wrote:
>
>> On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 5:54 PM, Brendan Eich <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> An essential part of this proposal is a paren-free call syntax
>>
>> Why is that essential?
> When I wrote essential, I was not claiming that there's a logical proof of
> necessity. Rather I was declaring that this strawman includes paren-free
> block-argument-bearing call expressions as an essential design element.
> Chopping it out chops down the whole strawman.
I understand what you're writing above but I think that ties this
proposed short syntax for functions (or lambdas) to something the
arrow syntax is not tied to and so makes it a "do you like apples or
oranges?" choice. In another thread, some people were suggesting {||}
as an exact alternative to the thin arrow.
Peter
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