Re: Delayed evaluation of expressions

[steve donovan <steve.j.donovan@...>]

On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 7:37 PM, Jerome Vuarand <jerome.vuarand@gmail.com> wrote:
> The problem with a single keyword is that you have no end delimiter,
> and therefore you cannot return multiple values, but maybe that's nice
> enough.

It would be a deliberate restriction.

> ..., 2. a "do end"
> short syntax for "function() end", and 3. the ability to avoid
> parenthesis around "do end"

I like this one, because it's a fairly common pattern, and continues
the Lua tradition of sugar-coated function calls - with strings, table
constructors, and now a special do..end block.

Compiler will have trouble with this code, of course;

local f = iden
do
  ...
end

steve d.