From: Gavin Sinclair <gsinclair@...>
Date: 2004-08-06T00:34:44+09:00
Subject: Re: Macros in Ruby

On Friday, August 6, 2004, 12:11:27 AM, Ara.T.Howard wrote:

> perhaps a shorthand:

>    lambda{ puts 'lambda' } => Proc:0xb74041a0
>    &{ puts 'lambda too' }  => Proc:0xb74041a1

> i'm probably missing something, but i don't think the syntax '&{' occurs
> anywhere now and '&' is already synomynous with blocks/procs/etc.


If you must have a shortcut, I think 'L' makes more sense.

  L { puts 'lambda' }    => Proc:0xb74041a0

My aesthetic sense says that a shortcut is unnecessary because
creating explicit lambdas is uncommon (because Ruby has blocks, thank
goodness), and because when you do explicitly create lambdas, they're
usually so cool and saving so much other effort that I don't begrudge
them a few characters :)

Gavin