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

[Pierre-Yves Gérardy <pygy79@...>]

On Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 14:25, joao lobato <btnfdp.lobato@gmail.com> wrote:
> Does Lua need a short lambda syntax? I like FP and lambda calculus as
> much as the next guy, but if you want a minimalist functional language
> what is wrong with Scheme?

Lua is already a powerful functional language.

There's nothing wrong with scheme, but the Lua VM has a lot of
advantages that Scheme environments don't have (AFAIK).

this syntax could also replace do blocks, for example:

():

::()

You can also simply this pattern

if f then
    f(args)
end

to

(f or ():::)(args)

I actually use the former pattern with a nop=function()end declared in
the global environment, but once again, this syntax make things more
clear.

(f or nop)(foo, bar) looks alien to me.
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