Re: [Proposal] Lua-y lambda syntax

["Soni L." <fakedme@...>]

On 2017-04-29 05:49 AM, Dirk Laurie wrote:
> Like most threads, this one has wandered way off topic. I apologize
> insincerely for the fact that this will look on a threaded reader like
> a reply to Steve's most recent post.
>
> I have never grasped why people want lambda syntax. The following
> is the existing Lua syntax:
>
> > fct = λ (a,b,c) → 10*(10*a+b)+c ▪
> > print(fct(2,7,3))  --> 273
> I actually have just made a simple hack of the Lua interpreter that
> did the above.
>
> I.e. there is nothing verbose about the syntax, people are just too
> lazy to type 'function', 'return' and 'end'.

function a_query(_) =_.SELECT("*").FROM("users").WHERE("age < 100")
for x in do_query(a_query) do
  ...
end

No ugly `end`, looks a lot more like SQL. It's a new option for DSLs.

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