Allen's lambda syntax proposal

[Jon Zeppieri]

2008/12/2 Brendan Eich <brendan at mozilla.com>:

> I think the only candidates have to be of the form
> ^(a, b, c) {...}
> (^ could be another character, but it seems to beat \ as others have noted),

Was there a problem with \ other than the fact that it can't easily be
turned into a binding form, à la

   \userFn() {...}

... due to the \u ambiguity?  Because the Smalltalk-like syntax
doesn't have an obvious binding form either.

   { userFn |a, b, c| ... }

is potentially already valid ES3, depending on the contents of '...' .


-Jon