On 3 March 2012 23:20, David Herman <dher...@mozilla.com> wrote: > On Mar 2, 2012, at 4:31 PM, Luke Hoban wrote: > >>>> What do you think? Do you like -> better than <| ? Is it ok to not have >>>> it available for some possible future function shorthand? >> >> Both => and -> have strong associations with function shorthands from C#, >> Scala, C++, Java 8, Perl, CoffeeScript, ML, Haskell and more. > > This argument seems to over-reach. C and C++ use -> for pointer indirection. > Perl uses -> for method calls.
C++11 uses it for function types: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%2B%2B11#Alternative_function_syntax /Andreas _______________________________________________ es-discuss mailing list es-discuss@mozilla.org https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss
