RE: Syntactic sugar for function parameters

[gary ng <garyng2000@...>]

--- Gavin Kistner <gavin.kistner@anark.com> wrote:

> From: Bret Victor
> > Gavin Kistner <gavin.kistner <at> anark.com>
> writes:
> > 
> > > The terseness of these near-lambdas[1] is one of
> Ruby's greatest
> > > accomplishments, IMO.
> > 
> > Ruby's greatest accomplishment was to copy
> Smalltalk?  ;)
> > 
> > Ruby:       obj.foobar  { |x| 2*x }
> > Smalltalk:  obj foobar: [ :x| 2*x ]
> 
> Beauty contest aside, if I don't call it one of
> Ruby's greatest
> accomplishments, I'd have to call it a great failing
> of those languages
> that didn't copy it. :) And I'd hate to say that
> about Lua. So I'll
> focus on the "yay for copying" aspect. ;)
> 
If copying is an option, I really want to see lua copy
something from Haskell, like currying and drop the ()
for function calls.


 
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