arrow syntax unnecessary and the idea that "function" is too long

[Isaac Schlueter]

On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 16:22, Oliver Hunt <oliver at apple.com> wrote:
> \ is a much more common lambda symbol in many languages, and i'm not sure what the ambiguity would be in \{...} or \(...){...}.

\(a,b,c) { a + b * c }

That's cute.


> I'm also really not happy with the concept of minor variances in syntax having such dramatic impact the language semantics.  All the fiddling with |this| dramatically increases the complexity of the language, it doesn't simplify it.

I completely agree.  It think any short-form function syntax should
have the exact same semantics as the existing long-form.  We've got
.bind(obj).  That's enough.