From: Trans Date: 2008-10-22T10:39:27+09:00 Subject: [ruby-core:19437] Re: Now that lambda has more powerful arguments... On Oct 21, 6:01�pm, Dave Thomas wrote: > At the risk of butting in, my two cents is that we no longer need the � > sytax, as lambda can apparently do it all. And, if ever a syntactic � > element needed to be retired, it's one that uses six (count'm, six) � > punctuation characters. I think that beats Perl. lambda{||} 10 characters. That's long for what it does. Sometimes punctuation is better. I mean, we wouldn't want to do: 4.add 5 would we? It something that will take getting used to, but I think matz has gotten this right actually.