On 6/15/2017 3:29 PM, Björn Larsson wrote: > Seems like the constraints on this feature makes it hard to fly, i.e. > 1. Not a hackish implementation > 2. Non ambiguous syntax > 3. Easy to parse & use syntax for the human > > HackLang then prioritised 2 & 3 making the end-users happy, but > had to sacrifise a clean implementation. Any clue if this was a one- > time effort once it was done or something with a lot of drawbacks > in terms of maintenance, performance, evolution etc? > > r//Björn >
On Reddit someone proposed the following syntax:
\() => echo 'Hello, World'
It is used by Haskell if I remember correctly and should not be
ambiguous since `(` is not allowed in names of classes or functions. It
actually aligns well with functions that are called with a
fully-qualified name (e.g. `\printf('')`).
Not sure if it would still require hacks though.
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Richard "Fleshgrinder" Fussenegger
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