[#16611] lambda, ->, haskell, and so on — Dave Thomas <dave@...>
This is one of those e-mails that I know from the start to be futile, =20=
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David A. Black wrote:
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On Thu, May 01, 2008 at 12:26:47PM +0900, Dave Thomas wrote:
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On Tue, May 06, 2008 at 02:02:34AM +0900, David A. Black wrote:
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Not to throw the whole thread into a tizzy again, but why again is:
Evan Phoenix wrote:
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On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 9:49 AM, Nobuyoshi Nakada <nobu@ruby-lang.org>
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What about "fn" or "fun", for "function"?
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On Wed, 14 May 2008, David A. Black wrote:
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how about an uppercase lambda (instead of the usual lowercase one)
Christopher Gill wrote:
Suraj N. Kurapati wrote:
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Nobuyoshi Nakada wrote:
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2008/5/23 <Nate_Wiger@playstation.sony.com>:
I am not sure if that fits to the thread. I have not used yet the more
Tammo Tjarks wrote:
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> assert_yin_yang -> { q += 0 }, 'it broke!', -> { q == 42 }
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[#16627] Monotonic timeofday() — zimbatm <zimbatm@...>
Hi ruby-core.
[#16642] ruby/trunk rev 16276 broken? ib/erb.rb:429:in `initialize': wrong argument type StringScanner (expected true) (TypeError) — Kurt Stephens <ks@...>
Build crashes shortly after miniruby linkage
[#16648] Uniform RDoc markup — "Jeremy McAnally" <jeremymcanally@...>
Would there be any resistance to making the markup of the RDoc
[#16760] errors running make test — Stephen Bannasch <stephen.bannasch@...>
I updated to revision 16403 and now compiling and running ruby1.9
[#16772] The RubySpec project at rubyspec.org — Brian Ford <brixen@...>
Hi all,
[#16773] Singleton methods on Float and Bignum — Evan Phoenix <evan@...>
In 1.8 (and 1.9 likely), trying to add a singleton method to a Float
Evan Phoenix wrote:
[#16788] Ruby 1.8.7-preview3 has been released — "Akinori MUSHA" <knu@...>
Folks,
[#16791] GC heap allocation in 1.9 — Sylvain Joyeux <sylvain.joyeux@...4x.org>
While getting the latest of trunk, I stumbled on r16194.
[#16806] nil.instance_eval — ts <decoux@...>
[#16807] Embedding Ruby1.9: seg fault — Masoom <masoom.shaikh@...>
Hi,
Hi,
that means current vm is not embeddable ? by min. src I guess you mean the
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[#16812] Proposal: Subject of ruby-core ML article should include artile number — SASADA Koichi <ko1@...>
Hi,
On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 8:20 AM, SASADA Koichi <ko1@atdot.net> wrote:
Luis Lavena wrote:
[#16832] Who is responsible for Ruby license? — "Han, Kimyung" <Kimyung.Han@...>
I am trying to discuss the ruby license with anyone who is responsible
[#16834] Returning duplicate values from Dir.glob — "Vladimir Sizikov" <vsizikov@...>
Hi,
[#16839] ruby autoconf problems — "Michal Suchanek" <hramrach@...>
Hello
[#16864] removal of magical definition of name for some class definition idioms — "Robert Dober" <robert.dober@...>
Dear list
[#16884] block args w/ defaults (was Re: resolving lambda | ambiguity) — "Eric Mahurin" <eric.mahurin@...>
On Sat, May 24, 2008 at 4:06 PM, Eric Mahurin <eric.mahurin@gmail.com>
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[#16886] lambda with normal block syntax — "Eric Mahurin" <eric.mahurin@...>
This patch is an independent but related one to my previous one. It can be
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On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 8:19 PM, Nobuyoshi Nakada <nobu@ruby-lang.org>
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On Mon, May 26, 2008 at 4:14 PM, Dave Thomas <dave@pragprog.com> wrote:
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On Mon, May 26, 2008 at 5:18 PM, Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@ruby-lang.org>
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If I may, here are two entries from the ChangeLog file:
Dave Thomas wrote:
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On May 27, 2008, at 12:33 PM, David Flanagan wrote:
James Gray wrote:
Dave Thomas wrote:
David Flanagan wrote:
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On 5/28/08, Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@ruby-lang.org> wrote:
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On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 2:31 AM, Eric Mahurin <eric.mahurin@gmail.com> wrote:
[#16921] Major performance degradation on trunk — "Vladimir Sizikov" <vsizikov@...>
Hi,
[#16943] Re: [PATCH] block args w/ defaults (updated) — "Eric Mahurin" <eric.mahurin@...>
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[#16945] Oniguruma and \p{Greek} — Dave Thomas <dave@...>
Looking at the source, I'd expect the following to work:
[#16951] Ruby 1.9 "exception reentered" — "Paul Boekholt" <p.boekholt@...>
Hi,
2008/5/27, Paul Boekholt <p.boekholt@gmail.com>:
2008/6/6, Paul Boekholt <p.boekholt@gmail.com>:
> 2008/6/6, Paul Boekholt <p.boekholt@gmail.com>:
[#16953] 1.8.6, jemalloc, sock.close problem — Christopher Thompson <cthompson@...>
Warning: This message is probably only peripherally related to Ruby!
I used to catch Errno::EINVAL when using lots of open file descriptors
[#16955] ruby-mode.el copyright assignment — Phil Hagelberg <phil@...>
Hi,
[#16979] Array.nitems replacement? — David Flanagan <david@...>
Array.nitems has just been removed from 1.9, and as near as I can make
[#16984] ZLIB for MSVC 8 - tar_input.rb — "Giancarlo F Bellido" <support@...>
I managed to install wxruby and compile zlib extension using this patch in
On May 28, 2008, at 19:48 PM, Giancarlo F Bellido wrote:
[#17010] unexpected return using define_method — Paul Brannan <pbrannan@...>
Is this a bug?
Paul Brannan wrote:
On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 06:10:25PM +0900, ts wrote:
Paul Brannan wrote:
[#17028] Ruby 1.8.7 has been released — "Akinori MUSHA" <knu@...>
Folks,
On Sun, Jun 01, 2008 at 12:25:08AM +0900, Akinori MUSHA wrote:
At Mon, 2 Jun 2008 06:37:21 +0900,
On Mon, Jun 02, 2008 at 03:46:53PM +0900, Akinori MUSHA wrote:
[#17030] Bytecode handling (compilation) extensions to Ruby 1.9 — Adam Strzelecki <ono@...>
Hello,
Hello again,
Hi,
> to_ary() convert ISeq object to Array and well known objects such as
Re: lambda, ->, haskell, and so on
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On Mon, 5 May 2008, Paul Brannan wrote:
> 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 }
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>> 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:
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> lambda(params) { block }
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> as an alternative to the -> syntax?
That would definitely be better. You'd then have, I assume:
lambda {|x,y,z| block } # block/yield arg. semantics
lambda(x,y,z) { block } # method semantics
which would, I think, cover what's needed.
David
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