Re: Shorter lambda forms (was Re: (kick,ass): => kick( ass ) ::)

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

I think eventually, Lua is just going to become a base description of
whatever constructs we script in... and we'll all be scripting in the
different dialects that act as interfaces to that. XD
*cough*metalua*cough*

On Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 7:02 PM, pan shizhu <pan.shizhu@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 5:07 AM, Majic <majic.one@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Technically, since function whatever() ... end is just syntactic sugar
>> for whatever = function () .. end, perhaps just using () should become
>> a way to denote a function?  Since {} is used to denote a table,
>> perhaps you could do whatever = () ..end.  However I still prefer
>> being as verbose as possible about my types, and i don't like the
>> |param1, param2| ickiness that stems from Ruby.  Who knows... just a
>> thought...  I pride Lua on being as verbose as possible (within
>> reason), so I'm not really pushing for a way to help other scripters
>> be lazy typists :p
>> Regards :)
>
> What we need is to replace the begin and end.
>
> Lua table use { as begin and } as end.
>
> So a possible replacement might be: (){ ... }, i.e. a table after ()
> defines a function. like
>
> (x, y){return x+y}
>
> I do think some Macro feature can accomplish this, i.e. have some
> pre-compile step for lua without actually changing lua syntax.
>
> But we obviously should not remove the "return", since lua requires
> statements in the function body instead of an expression.
>