Re: Another example for syntactically lightweight closures

["steve donovan" <steve.j.donovan@...>]

On Feb 6, 2008 3:43 PM, Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org> wrote:
>    mydata:sort ( |a,b|(upcase (a) > upcase (b)) )
>
>    mydata:collect ( |x| (x.shoesize > x.age/2) )

I tend to prefer this syntax to the more wordy one, but then maybe the
word 'in' is the problem?

How about

mydata:collect( (a,b) to (upcase(a) > upcase(b)) )?

sqr = (x) to (x*x)

'becomes' is better, but more typing. '=>' is conventional, but is
more punctuation.

Or even 'is'? But that seems to be abusing the English language, perhaps.

steve d.