Allen's lambda syntax proposal

[David-Sarah Hopwood]

P T Withington wrote:
> Would it work to move the parameter list inside the block (as in the
> Smalltalk way, but as a regular parameter list, not using ||'s)?
> 
>   {(a, b) a + b}
> 
> AFAICT, `{(` is a syntax error for an expression in es3.

I think this is unambiguous, but I don't like it because it has no
symbol or combination of symbols that is specific to a lambda.
( "{(" can occur as the start of a block.)

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David-Sarah Hopwood