On Dec 2, 2008, at 8:57 PM, Brendan Eich wrote:
C# uses (a, b, c) => ... but in JS the comma operator makes that nasty to parse top-down. I think the only candidates have to be of the form^(a, b, c) {...}(^ could be another character, but it seems to beat \ as others have noted), or else the Smalltalky{ |a, b, c| ... }At this point we need a bake-off, or a convincing argument against the unusual vertical bar usage.
How's this for a strawman: the choice is to follow either Objective-C or Smalltalk. Given that Objective-C and JS share syntactical roots in C, it makes more sense to follow the Objective-C precedent.
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