On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 12:06, Brendan Eich <bren...@mozilla.org> wrote:
>> Yes, an identifier is required. It would not be possible to define an
>> unnamed function in this way.
>
> Why not express an anonymous function, though? Definition != expression. As
> usual, an expression *statement* could not start with ( and consist entirely
> of a function-keyword-free anonymous function expression.
I see. So, you'd be suggesting using:
( args ) { functionBody }
as an anonymous function expression, though not a function expression
statement? What about these?
;(( args ) { functionBody })
!( args ) { functionBody }
Certainly, this is quite nice:
myList.forEach((item) { .. })
> Dart has mandatory semicolons to help avoid trouble around the edges of
> statements/definitions.
>
> Candor is new, so no one has deep experience.
>
> To get further we'd need some brave souls to try this out with a trivial
> transpiler, at scale.
True that.
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