Re: simply question about syntatic sugar

[Nagaev Boris <bnagaev@...>]

On Sun, Jun 7, 2015 at 1:38 PM, Soni L. <fakedme@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> On 07/06/15 05:57 AM, steve donovan wrote:
>>
>> On Sun, Jun 7, 2015 at 4:09 AM, Rena <hyperhacker@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> unusual. What I've seen in some dialects is that it automatically
>>> creates a closure; i.e. `f = v:abs` means the same as `f =
>>> function(...) return v:abs(...) end`.
>>
>> That's how I would read it, and how it works in Moonscript.
>>
>> The fact that people have very different meanings attached to the
>> ambiguous syntax v:abs means that it is a bad idea.
>>
> Here's better syntactic sugar:
>
> v->abs = v:abs()
>
> (in C, -> is like . but with a dereference, "dereference" being the key
> here)
>

Why not
   v\abs!
?

It is the moonscript syntax.



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Best regards,
Boris Nagaev