From: Christian Neukirchen <chneukirchen@...>
Date: 2005-03-21T21:36:45+09:00
Subject: Re: Paul Graham recommends Ruby

Mathieu Bouchard <matju@sympatico.ca> writes:

> 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.

Rather, extend Ruby to handle uncode identifiers!! (or can it already?)

http://kronavita.de/chris/graphics/ruby-emacs.png

(That's faking by the editor, though.)

> precedent: there's already a method called p.

Seriously, I could live with L, but would use lambda nevertheless.  It
has a nice ring to my lispy ears. :-)

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