Allen's lambda syntax proposal

[Felix]

@ is unused
    @(a, b, c){}

Douglas Crockford wrote:
> Allen Wirfs-Brock wrote:
>> {|a,b,c| ...} or
>> \(a,b,c) {...} or
>> {\(a,b,c) ...}
> 
>> The use of \ slightly bothers me because it is takes a character
>  > that now is exclusively used in the lexical (token) grammar
>  >( Unicode escapes, string escapes, line continuations)
>  > and gives it syntactic significance. This is probably not a
>  >fatal flaw but it would mean that the lexical uses of \ become less
>  >visually distinctive.
> 
> The language overuses / recklessly, and still it didn't die.
> I suppose it could survive the overuse of \ as well.
> 
> Is recursion still desirable in this form. If so, then of the three I like
> 
>     \(a,b,c) {}
> 
> because you can think of the \ as being an abbreviation of function.
> 
>     \ name(a,b,c) {}
> 
> Just don't start your function name with u.
> 
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