Allen's lambda syntax proposal
P T Withington
ptw at pobox.com
Thu Dec 4 12:33:19 PST 2008
On 2008-12-04, at 15:23EST, David-Sarah Hopwood wrote:
> Arguably, the problem here is that semicolon insertion is and always
> was a bad idea.
<whinge>
That and not requiring whitespace around operators, thus taking away a
huge domain of possible multi-symbol names (such as := for
initialization/assignment to preclude the =/== trap, or say, )\ for λ,
and forcing camelCasing or carpal_tunnel_syndrome upon everyone who
prefers descriptive-symbol-names...)
</whinge>
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