On 02.05.2016 22:20, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
On Monday, 2 May 2016 at 20:11:53 UTC, Timon Gehr wrote:I don't think { ... } as shorthand for (){ ... } is necessary or particularly useful in the first place.Indeed. I don't think =>x as a shorthand for {return x;} is really worth it either... D has a ridiculous number of variations on function syntax. ...
function int delegate()delegate(int)(int y){ return (x)const=>{ return x+y;}; }; // :o)
(=>x is not valid.)
But I don't expect any of them to be removed either.
Most of them don't hurt much (unlike { ... }). It's quite annoying that function definition syntax and delegate literal syntax are inconsistent though. E.g. lambda syntax should be usable for named functions (int x()=>3;).
