[ruby-core:30481] Re: Ruby Core - Lambda function

2010/5/28 Paul A. <[e-mail]>:
> Just a thin post in order to purpose this:
>
> I think it could be cool to call lambda function just like: 
>
> Such as:
>
> a = 0
> my_while  { a < 5 } o
> puts a
> a += 1
> end
>
> I think is more human then ->

This might cause issues with encoding of the source code - I believe
it is unspoken agreement that programming languages use 7 bit ASCII as
least common denominator for encoding of keywords and control
structures.  And the reason is that with that convention you have the
biggest chance of being robust against encoding differences (e.g. IIRC
7 bit ASCII is a subset even of UTF-8 and of course all the ISO 8859
encodings).  There might even be systems that do not support an
encoding which knows the greek lambda.  This would limit portability
of source code.

Maybe this is a topic for ruby-core (cross posted there).

Kind regards

robert

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