Array comprehensions shorter syntax (?)

[Dmitry A. Soshnikov]

On 01.06.2011 3:06, Waldemar Horwat wrote:
> On 05/29/11 07:00, Dmitry A. Soshnikov wrote:
>> Yeah, and ES also supports them. It's called a generator expression; 
>> in this proposal it would look like:
>>
>> let squares = (x * x | x < data, x > 5);
>
> Ahem, that's already a parenthesized comma expression with operands
>

Yes, true (haha, this one is even a correct ES3 expression :D, and not 
only with the typo `< data`, but with the arrow: `<- data`). Though, I 
just was excited with arrow functions so proposed Erlang's list 
comprehensions (Erlang also uses arrows for functions btw, though, 
that's said, it uses two pipes [X*X || X <- Data, X > 5]). Regarding 
comma, I though, perhaps it would be possible to treat it correctly in 
this context -- well, no means no.

P.S.: another question I have -- is it worth and makes sense to raise a 
topic on considering/standardizing the pattern matching (Dave's 
proposal)? 
http://wiki.ecmascript.org/doku.php?id=strawman:pattern_matching Brendan 
mentioned on Twitter that it's "too late" (?), but IMO this proposal is 
much more interesting and needed for the lang than e.g. WeakMaps (which 
of course are also useful stuff, but not so powerful addition as 
pattern-matching would).

Dmitry.

>   x * x | x < data
>
> and
>
>   x > 5.
>
> Remember that | is a perfectly fine binary operator.
>
>     Waldemar
>
> PS.  Block lambdas don't suffer from this problem because neither | 
> nor || is a valid unary prefix operator, so they can be made 
> syntactically unambiguous.