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Er, perhaps I misunderstand your examples, but those look like preciselymy case (1): mydata:sort ( |a,b|(upcase (a) > upcase (b)) ) mydata:collect ( |x| (x.shoesize > x.age/2) )
Whoops, you're right, sorry :)Hm... could something like "|a| ..." be made shorthand for "function(a) return ... end"? (with the parentheses optional?)
Trouble is, it leads to "||" for argument-less closures, and it won't extend nicely for the unwind_protect multi-line example that started this thread.
Having said that, I like your "|a,b|(a + b)" and "|a|{ print (a) }". The first one would be single-valued (fine with me). And arg-less could then be "||{ print (123) }". Both of them could be used after the closing parenthesis, so to get back to the original example, we'd have:
unwind_protect( io.close, f ) || {
print( f:read( "*a" ) )
}
(or perhaps ":" i.s.o. "|", no idea whether that can fit in Lua's
syntax rules)
I sure hope someone finds a nice syntax for Lua, I expect something like the above one-liners to be very useful. Ruby is full of examples where closures simplify the notation - to the point where they become second nature, in fact.
-jcw