(Almost) everything is expression

[Dmitry Soshnikov]

On 11.11.2011 14:52, Axel Rauschmayer wrote:
>> which I thought could be turned into:
>> -----
>> var C = {
>>     let something;
>>
>>     // |this| is the global object
>>     // ...
>> }
>> -----
>>
>> But it does not have a return value and as noted in your second message, there seems to be an ambiguity with object initializers (not only visual but formal).
>> The 'do expressions' solution sounds like a good idea, but visually reminds of a do-while loop.
>>
>> I don't really have a better proposition yet, but i'm looking forward to seeing any solution that will allow to replace all "(function(global){...})(this);"
>
>
> IIRC: Block lambdas.
>
> var C = {||   // note the double pipe
>     let something;
>
>     // |this| is the global object
>     // ...
>
>     return something;
> }
>
>
> With a single expression, you don’t even have to return:
>
> var C = {||   // note the double pipe
>     foo()
> }
>

This contradicts TCP though. E.g. Ruby supports it and there we can't 
`return` from blocks, since block wrapping should not be treated as a 
function.

OTOH, as I noted in the initial letter, it can be convenient to return 
from the middle of such a block with exactly `return` statement. But, 
it's again contradicts TCP, and `return` should exit exactly execution 
context, but not just a block. Exactly for this it's used in Ruby, when 
begin inside a function you may exit directly from the function using 
`return` from the block passed to a higher-order function, e.g. `each` 
or arrays.

Besides, if to accept this Ruby's blocks, then in common case -- e.g. as 
shorted notation for functional arguments.

Dmitry.