On Jan 12, 2012, at 1:26 PM, Thaddee Tyl wrote:
> I have heard many fellow programmers say that, while block lambdas
> would be welcome, Ruby's |a, b| syntax is ugly.
> I thought I was the only one feeling this way, but since I am not, I
> would like to ask why the parentheses cannot be used there.
>
> { (a, b) a + b }
>
> cannot conflict with any existing program; at least I don't see how it can.
but it is ambiguous with other currently valid statement blocks such as:
{ (a, b) + b}
or
{ (a,b)
a+b
}
Allen
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