simple shorter function syntax

[Brendan Eich]

On Jul 26, 2010, at 10:00 AM, Kevin Curtis wrote:

> Re backslash and the issue of creating an escaping hazard when JS code
> is included in a quoted string.
> 
> How so - is  there a problem with eval'ing:
> eval("[0, 1, 2, 3].map(\(x) {x * x})");

js> "\(".length
1
js> "\(".charAt(0)
"("

Big problem.


> (The backslash is sweet on both us and euro keyboards - no shift
> needed as with # or @. yeah trivial...).

Shifting is a problem, I've heard from RSI-suffering friends.

/be