Re: Syntactic sugar for function parameters

[Robert Raschke <rrlua@...>]

>> If copying is an option, I really want to see lua copy
>> something from Haskell, like currying and drop the ()
>> for function calls.
> 
> dropping () for function calls cannot work:
> 
> myprint = print
> 

I think it was meant as in "if there's no parens after the function
take the next thing as the sole argument", like:

a_string = "foobar"
print a_string

or

twice = function (x) return function(y) return x(x(y)) end end
double = function (x) return x + x end
print (twice double 42)

Robby


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