l give us. At least this:
http://wiki.ecmascript.org/doku.php?id=strawman:block_lambda_revival looks
very appealing to me.
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So one thing that lambda really helps with, and where TCP is a serious
practical issue and not just philosophical, is macros.
Macros need the ability to create new kinds of control flow by taking
expressions and reordering and delaying them. You can use 'function' for this
but you don't want th
On Jun 18, 2011, at 1:50 PM, Brendan Eich wrote:
> On Jun 18, 2011, at 1:02 PM, Peter Michaux wrote:
>> So what can be done to help move the block lambda proposal towards Harmony?
>
> To me the biggest obstacle is the meta-point about "OMG too different"
> regarding return, break, and continue h
On Jun 18, 2011, at 1:02 PM, Peter Michaux wrote:
> Drawing the line in the right place is important of course. I was
> trying to contribute to the case that drawing the line with lambdas in
> would be beneficial to some and perhaps a growing group in the future.
If you wrote "might" instead of "
On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 1:02 PM, Peter Michaux wrote:
[...]
> So what can be done to help move the block lambda proposal towards Harmony?
>
Accumulating more arguments in its favor, as you are attempting to do in
this thread, and answering arguments against. The gate is achieving
consensus among
On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 11:53 AM, Brendan Eich wrote:
> On Jun 18, 2011, at 10:33 AM, Peter Michaux wrote:
> Yet CoffeeScript does not need lambdas with TCP control effects today. It
> translates in a straightforward (mostly) "transpiling" way. Even its
> expression-language mapping of statements
On Jun 18, 2011, at 10:33 AM, Peter Michaux wrote:
> Recently, I've invested time looking at current
> compiling-to-JavaScript developments. Although people have been doing
> this for many years now, it seems CoffeeScript is making it clear that
> being a target of compilation is at least part of
Recently, I've invested time looking at current
compiling-to-JavaScript developments. Although people have been doing
this for many years now, it seems CoffeeScript is making it clear that
being a target of compilation is at least part of JavaScript's future.
The pending additions in browsers of su
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