On Friday, 21 October 2016 at 13:33:26 UTC, Stefan Koch wrote:
It does create a lambda? Hmm that should not happen.
Eh, that's exactly what the language rules say should happen, and it actually does make sense to me... you might even want to use an immediately-called lambda to group several statements together into one expression.
Though I have become convinced recently that we should deprecate the `{ lambdas }` in favor of `() { lambdas }`. This is the same mistake as `() => {xxx}` that we see a bunch of newbies make. If the syntax was changed to require the empty parens for the args, `() {}`, people would be a lot less likely to mess this up... and the rest of us don't seriously lose anything, adding `()` is easy enough if they aren't already there.
I think deprecating `{ lambda }` is really the way to go. It'd fix this as well at that other FAQ at pretty low cost.
