return when desugaring to closures
liorean
liorean at gmail.com
Wed Oct 15 17:07:24 PDT 2008
>>> Please specify what you are proposing. The one proposal I've seen is:
>>>
>>> Expression ::= ... | lambda Formals Statement
> Dave Herman wrote:
>> Yes, that's what I meant, or at least what I thought Yuh-Ruey meant.
>>
>>> This is not particularly useful because then even assign a lambda to a
>>> variable would be a syntax error,
>>
>> Why is that?
2008/10/15 Waldemar Horwat <waldemar at google.com>:
> Because there exists no sequence of grammar production expansions that would expand to "a = lambda() x;".
Only if you disallow newlines in the lambda syntax. This is certainly
allowed in ES3:
a=lambda()
x;
Same goes for
a=lambda
{...}
or
a=lambda(...)
{...}
(...)
or any number of similar plays with the semicolon insertion rules.
--
David "liorean" Andersson
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