From: Martin DeMello <martindemello@...>
Date: 2005-10-12T20:41:53+09:00
Subject: Re: Default argument values for blocks

Thomas <sanobast-2005a@yahoo.de> wrote:
> > What of &?
> > 
> >   a.each( &->(foo="bar"){puts foo} )  # Ick.
> > 
> > Can we drop?
> > 
> >   a.each( ->(foo="bar"){puts foo} )   # Better.
> 
> I was dreaming for a long time of a ruby dialect that has all these 
> fancy arrows haskell has. Everybody proposing arrows, please (try to) 
> read some haskell code.
> 
> But seriosly, I personally would prefer something in the line lambda(x, 
> y=1) {...} as it was proposed by other people too.

And here I was wishing for \(foo="bar") {}, the way Haskell does it :)
(Seriously - I've always found that the best of all the lambda
notations)

martin