Expression closures - use-cases for shortcut lambda syntax (blocks)

[Vassily Gavrilyak]

On 3/17/07, Brendan Eich <brendan at mozilla.org> wrote:
> On Mar 16, 2007, at 10:38 PM, Neil Mix wrote:
>
> > On Mar 16, 2007, at 8:57 PM, Robert Sayre wrote:
> >
> >> Seems to me that "function(){" is a little more painful when nested.
> >
> > Great examples -- you've changed my mind about the \( syntax.  I
> > would argue that the painfulness is a result of densely packed
> > alternating/nested curlies and parens and has little to do with the
> > function keyword.
>
> Test that claim: show those Mochikit examples rewritten to use
> expression closures as proposed for ES4.
>
> /be
>
>

Here the examples rewritten uses functions and => syntax

// forEach used instead of for
addLoadEvent(() => {
    var page = "rounded_corners/";
    var elems = getElementsByTagAndClassName("A", "view-source");
    elems.forEach(elem => {
        var href = elem.href.split(/\//).pop();
        elem.target = "_blank";
        elem.href = "../view-source/view-source.html#" + page + href;
    })
});

//usage of 2 different for's isn't very nice here
//there should be some way to do it with comrehensions
//, but forEach will do it too
addLoadEvent(() => {
    DomDeco.registry.forEach((registry,key) => {
        registry.forEach(value => DomDeco.apply(key, it))
    })
}

//here add*Callback API is not neccessary, CPS will do it nicely too.
//bonus - no framework knowledge needed, just a convention
addLoadEvent(() => {
    wait(0.5, {data: [["getUsers", "getUsers"], ["foo",  "bar"]]},
       res=>showSelectData(res), err=>showError(res));
})


//CPS again, example is actually not complete,
//showPageList is already refactored out, that is not always so in real code
addLoadEvent(()=>{
    pagelist.onclick = e => {
      e.preventDefault();
      loadJSONDoc("${std.url('/pagelist', tg_format='json')}",
list=>showPageList(list));
    }
})

//here the whole slot-signal framework (untyped)
//can be replaced with redable and typed version
addLoadEvent(()=>{
    bad_example.onclick   = _:Event  => bad_example.showvalue("explicit_value");
    bad_example.showvalue = s:String => window.alert(s);
    good_example.onclick  = _:Event  => randomObj.showvalue("explicit_value");
    randomObj.showvalue   = s:String => window.alert(s);
});


Regard
Vassily Gavrilyak