From: Paul Brannan <pbrannan@...>
Date: 2008-05-05T22:34:41+09:00
Subject: Re: lambda, ->, haskell, and so on

On Thu, May 01, 2008 at 12:26:47PM +0900, Dave Thomas wrote:
> This is one of those e-mails that I know from the start to be futile,  
> but...
> 
> For a while now, the
> 
>      -> (params) { block }
> 
> syntax in Ruby 1.9 has bothered me, but I've never been sure why.  
> Today, while playing with pure, it struck me. The '->' sequence is in  
> an unexpected place. Having played with some functional languages, I'm  
> used to lambdas being written

I agree.  To me the -> looks like an arrow rather than a lambda, so it
reels like it should be between two items.

What if "lambda" were to become a keyword, so one could write:

  lambda(params) { block }

as an alternative to the -> syntax?

Paul