Re: Lightweight function syntax (again) Re: [ANN] Lua 5.2.0 (alpha-rc2) now available

[Axel Kittenberger <axkibe@...>]

As this all just about a shortcut of making function statements less
clunky, in areas where needed, how about removing the need to name the
arguments?
@(=> _1 + _2, _1 * _2)

is short for

function(a,b) return a+b, a*b end

But honestly as seeing Lua's anti-bloating philosophy, and this all
just adding brevity without new functionality I doubt we ever gonna
see it in stock Lua.

(BTW: I'd easily wave this all for continue ;-)

On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 9:55 AM, David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> wrote:
> steve donovan <steve.j.donovan@gmail.com> writes:
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>> Well, language design is not a popularity contest - or should not be.
>> But this proposal has a certain elegance to it.
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> Language design is not a contest in piling up the largest heap of
> elegant splinters.
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> David Kastrup
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