Re: Random thought: short lambda syntax (no patching required!)

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

On Mon, May 26, 2014 at 11:02 AM, Geoff Leyland
<geoff_leyland@fastmail.fm> wrote:
> Unfortunately for this particular case, relational metamethods only support returning a boolean.  You can’t build expressions with them (but you can with the arithmetic operators)

Thanks, Geoff - that's exactly the problem I hit, so that would have
to be expressed as a function Gt(_1,_2).  While an interesting
experiment, I found string lambdas to be less problematic, if you
accept their limitation: they cannot capture (without expensive
trouble) any upvalues.