On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 6:50 PM, Isaac Schlueter <i...@izs.me> wrote:
> A great many letters have been typed regarding the number of letters in the
> word "function".
>
> What if we just made the keyword "function" entirely optional, dart-style?
>
> ShortNamedFunctionDeclaration :Identifier <no_linebreak> ( FormalParameterListopt )
> <no_linebreak> { FunctionBody }
> ShortNamedFunctionExpression :Identifier <no_linebreak> ( FormalParameterListopt )
> <no_linebreak> { FunctionBody } Note that the identifier is no longer
> optional, and that no linebreak is allowed between the parameter list and
> the body, unlike current function decl/exprs.
> myList.forEach(x (item) {
> item += 2
> doSomethingElse(item)
> assert(typeof x === "function")
> })
An interesting property of this syntax is that anonymous functions can
be written this way:
myList.forEach(λ (item) { doWith(item) })
(it can also be `lambda (item) { ... }`)
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