Re: Another example for syntactically lightweight closures

["steve donovan" <steve.j.donovan@...>]

On 2/9/08, Jean-Claude Wippler <jcw@equi4.com> wrote:
> My only suggestion with this would to consider allowing the |... to
> optionally *follow* the call, i.e.
>         t:sort() |a,b|( a > b )

Boo (a statically-compiled, inferred-type, Python-like language) does this:

sort(t) do(a:int,b:int):
    return a > b

The convention is that if the last arg is a function it can be
specified in this way.

steve d.