Re: special forms, take two (was Re: A lua version of "amb")

[Christopher Berardi <cberardi@...>]

On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 04:13:19PM -0700, HyperHacker wrote:
> Wouldn't a more Lua-like approach be to use a keyword "lambda" instead
> of a symbol? I think my favourite syntax would be:
> lambda x: x+1
> but that might be difficult to parse, since x:x looks like a function
> call, so maybe you'd need a double colon.
> lambda x (x+1) -- has the same problem, but even moreso since x(x+1)
> is actually a valid statement.

What about something like
    lambda x -> x + 1
or 
    lambda x => x + 1
???

Though, I'm not certain I see the difference between this and, say,
    function (x) return x + 1 end
other than it's a little shorter (though, a little syntatic sugar never
hurt anyone).

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