Re: Another example for syntactically lightweight closures

[Miles Bader <miles.bader@...>]

Asko Kauppi <askok@dnainternet.net> writes:
> 	yyy=	do =something end
> 	xxx= 	do(a,b) =a+b end
> 	zzz= 	do(a,b,c) if a then =b else =c end end

To be blunt: yuck.

People keep trying to re-use do...end as a "svelte lambda" notation, and
it _just isn't working_.  It's essentially no more readable or concise
than the current syntax.

It's becoming pretty clear (to me) that keyword-oriented syntaxes (like
the above) simply don't work well for a notation intended for embedding
inside expressions or use as one-liners.

-Miles

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