Re: ideas for lambda syntax

[Dirk Laurie <dirk.laurie@...>]

2013/4/9 oliver <oliver.schoenborn@gmail.com>:

> There is not much that I really miss in Lua, but the lack of
> a short lambda syntax is one that keeps coming back time
> and again.

Lua's existing syntax _is_ lambda syntax, but for the sake of
portability the three symbols required are spelt out with keywords.

f = λ(a,b)↦a+b∎
f = \lambda(a,b) \to a+b \endlambda
f = function(a,b) return a+b end