Re: (kick,ass): => kick( ass ) ::

[Majic <majic.one@...>]

Sounds something like Haskell, tbh... I'm still learning how to do
much of anything in that language, but I believe it's:

functonname var1, var2 -> var1 var2

(Since there are no parenthesis var2 is supplied to var1, called like
a function?)

Personally, I like how verbose Lua is...  makes things (at a glance to
new programmers) pretty self-explanatory. :>

On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 10:16 AM, Mark Hamburg <mark@grubmah.com> wrote:
> On Feb 5, 2010, at 9:21 AM, Pierre-Yves Gérardy wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I'm new to Lua but well aware of the conundrum regarding the short
>> lambda syntax.
>>
>> I couldn't refrain myself from proposing my own suggestion, though, so
>> here it is:
>>
>>   function(eat,food) return eat( food ) end
>>
>> becomes
>>
>>   (kick,ass): => kick( ass ) ::
>
> If one can live without the ability to write multi-statement functions, then "( args ) => expr" is essentially the C# short lambda syntax. (I think. I've only written a little bit of C# and it's been a while.)
>
> On the other hand, I think this becomes rather tricky to parse since one would have to parse relatively far to figure out whether a parenthesis was kicking off a parenthetical expression or whether it was kicking off a function definition. Hence, other alternatives like "\( args ) expr" or "| args | expr" seem preferable.
>
> That said, your explicit end mark resolves the precedence issues that all of the above choices exhibit.
>
> Mark
>
>