Re: Another example for syntactically lightweight closures

[Asko Kauppi <askok@...>]

The place where I've missed them myself is in GUI callback tables.

Switch statements is another potential usage, but that is a matter of  
its own, too.

Mark's idea about being able to optimize initialization of non- 
upvalue using functions is a good one.


Robert Raschke kirjoitti 7.2.2008 kello 21:50:

> Who is the intended audience for these lambda-style expressions, that
> is, who will be actually writing code using them?  And will lots of
> nifty higher-order functions to go with them be provided?
>
> Judging by comments in search of brevity on this thread, I wonder if
> some people might be better served by the J programming language
> (http://www.jsoftware.com/).
>
> Robby
>
> --
> I'd rather write programs that write programs than write programs.
> 	R. Sites