From: Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...>
Date: 2008-05-12T08:10:35+09:00
Subject: Re: lambda, ->, haskell, and so on

Hi,

In message "Re: lambda, ->, haskell, and so on"
    on Sun, 11 May 2008 15:14:54 +0900, Evan Phoenix <evan@fallingsnow.net> writes:

|Not to throw the whole thread into a tizzy again, but why again is:
|
|  ->(a,b) { }   # stabby proc
|
|better than
|
|   def(a,b) { } # anonymous def
|
|Seems like there has been continual talk of the positions of ->, but  
|none (I may have missed it) on it existing at all (though, I'm quite  
|aware of them existing before).

IIRC, def stands for define, so

  def foo(bar)
    ...
  end

reads "define method foo which takes a parameter bar as blah blah".
Anonymous def does not define any method, so its name contains
contradiction in itself.

							matz.