From: Paul Brannan <pbrannan@...>
Date: 2008-05-22T20:34:58+09:00
Subject: Re: lambda, ->, haskell, and so on

On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 02:23:29AM +0900, Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:
>   * it changes meaning of the valid syntax ("lambda(a){p a}" is valid
>     in 1.8 with different semantics).

lambda(a) currently raises an exception on 1.8.  Are these useful
semantics?

> There could be a chance for the keyword like "fun" or "fn", but
> there's little hope.

Is this beause there's little agreement on what keyword to use?

Paul