On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 10:08 AM, Trans <[email protected]> wrote: > [0, 1, 2, 3].map( f(x) {x * x} ) > [0, 1, 2, 3].map( fn(x) {x * x} ) > [0, 1, 2, 3].map( y(x) {x * x} ) > Any of these seem a much nicer choice than '#', IMHO.
While I agree on principle, the real challenge here is to find syntax that will not break existing programs by promoting an existing variable name to a keyword. Otherwise, you'd have to look ahead to the curly brace block to distinguish the variable name from the function keyword. It's been a long time since I wrote a parser of this kind, but as I recall, looking ahead is generally hacky. function expression: name, argument list, block Of course, if that approach were taken, the spec might as well forgo having a function keyword at all and use the name or absence of a name to distinguish a named and anonymous function expression. But again, I expect there would be resistance to looking ahead. Kris Kowal _______________________________________________ es-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss
