On Jun 23, 2011, at 7:04 PM, Mike Samuel wrote: > 2011/6/23 Brendan Eich <[email protected]>: >> On Jun 23, 2011, at 4:07 PM, Rob Campbell wrote: >> >>> I'm liking the block-lambda syntax, I think more than the arrow. One >>> possible shortening could be to exclude the second bar (|) if no argument >>> variables are specified. >>> {| // some block of code }; > >> This does not work. How do you know that what follows the first | is not a >> formal parameter? >> Formal parameter syntax looks like expression syntax -- currently Expression >> covers FormalParameterList. Arrow function syntax relies on this. >> /be > > Are you thinking that > > {| a | a } > > it is ambiguous whether > > function (a) { return a; } > > or > > function () { return a | a; }
Precisely. /be _______________________________________________ es-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss
