From: Mathieu Bouchard <matju@...>
Date: 2005-03-21T18:44:50+09:00
Subject: Re: Paul Graham recommends Ruby


On Sun, 20 Mar 2005, David A. Black wrote:

> I'm not sure anything's new in that CVS feature except:
>    my_lambda = {|| puts "I am a lambda"}
> where the || (with or without a param list) tells you that it's a
> lambda rather than a hash.
> I'm not a fan of this; I prefer using the lambda keyword.

Why not alias lambda/proc to L ? it would be just one more character to
type than the new syntax when there are arguments, and one _less_
character when there are none. And no syntax changes.

precedent: there's already a method called p.

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