Block lambda is cool, its syntax isn't

[Axel Rauschmayer]

>> Couldn’t one always freeze such a function shorthand and then get syntax such as:
>> 
>>     #(x, y) { x + y }
> 
> I'm not sure what you mean. I proposed this a while ago ("Harmony of My Dreams") but we don't want frozen by design, and without the # the result is ambiguous without restricted productions, and hazardous on that account.
> 
> The idea that any grawlixy preifx will do is false. Hash is wanted for consistent freeze/seal prefixing. Arrow is better and putting it at the front solves the grammar problems with arrow function syntax as current drafted.


Rationale: wouldn’t freezing by default be OK for 98% of the cases? If you want anything else, you can use a traditional function. Then the above syntax as the only function shorthand would be OK.

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