Re: Another example for syntactically lightweight closures

[David Given <dg@...>]

Mark Hamburg wrote:
[...]
>     unwind_protect( io.close, f ) do
>         print( f:read( "*a" ) )
>     end

That's ambiguous --- the compiler can't distinguish this from:

unwing_protect(io.close, f);
do
  print(f:read("*a"));
end;

OTOH it would be nice to have some way of avoiding the ugly end) after a 
function closure in a parameter list.

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David Given
dg@cowlark.com