Block lambda grammar: BlockArguments

[Brendan Eich]

> Axel Rauschmayer <mailto:axel at rauschma.de>
> January 12, 2012 11:16 PM
> http://wiki.ecmascript.org/doku.php?id=strawman:block_lambda_revival
>
> I’m trying to understand the syntax:
> BlockArguments :
>      BlockLambda
>      BlockArguments [no LineTerminator here] BlockLambda
>      BlockArguments [no LineTerminator here] ( InitialValue )
>
> - Wouldn’t this allow the following? BlockLambda [no LineTerminator 
> here] BlockLambda

Yes.

> - InitialValue means that paren-free can be combined with arguments 
> that aren’t blocks, right?

Yes.
>
> myLoopFunc(initValue1)(initValue2) { | arg1, arg2 | ... }

No, the myLoopFunc(initValue1) is a CallExpression -- see

CallWithBlockArguments :

     CallExpression [no LineTerminator here] BlockArguments

  
The *return value* of that ordinary CallExpression is the callee of the paren-free call.

>
> I think I would prefer the following (IIRC, more like Ruby):
>
> myLoopFunc(initValue1, initValue2) { | arg1, arg2 | ... }
>

That parses, as described above. The two-argument CallExpression must 
return a function that takes the block arguments.

I see a problem in the grammar in the strawman, now that you mention it: 
no way to produce a simple identifier callee from CallExpression, so no

   map {|e| e*e}

only

   v.map {|e| e*e}

or

   get_map() {|e| e*e}

or similar. I will fix.

/be
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