Re: Lightweight function syntax (again)

[Tony Finch <dot@...>]

On Wed, 24 Nov 2010, Alex Bradbury wrote:
>
> On balance, I think this is my favourite proposal so far.

I'm glad you and Doug like it :-)

> Perhaps my only niggle is I'm used to parentheses around an expression
> resulting in that expression returning only one value, though I assume
> \ x,y (x*x, y*y) will return two.

Yes. Think of it as being like a function call parameter list, except
the values are coming out rather than going in.

> I don't suppose you've looked at implementing this patch for LuaJIT 2?

No, though it should be fairly simple.

Tony.
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