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

[Dirk Laurie <dirk.laurie@...>]

> Actually the 'make a field extractor for foo' is a good example of how
> sometimes a little lambda is easier to write and read than a library
> function.
>

Given Lua's indulgence to all those Fortran programmers out
there, what about good old "arithmetic statement functions" for
a lightweight syntax?  In this case:

foo(x) = x.foo

Since it's not anonymous, even I would use it …