> In this mail I’m answering several statements made in this thread by
> different people, not only Brent’s mail from which I just picked the
> following snippet:
>
>> let names = people.map => person { person.name }
>
> For me that is more difficult to read than
>
> let names = people.map { person in person.name }
>
> Especially when chaining is used, i.e.
>
> let names = people.filter => person { person.isFriend }.map => person {
> person.name }
>
> (or would I have to add parentheses somewhere with this proposed syntax?)
>
> vs.
>
> let names = people.filter { person in person.isFriend }.map { person in
> person.name }
>
I said in the email that => is too visually heavy for this role.
Here's something lighter, although I'm still not satisfied with it, and not
seriously suggesting it:
let names = people.map ~ person { person.name }
Or even:
let names = people.map \person { person.name }
However, I'm really struggling to find anything that I actually like here. This
may be one of those cases where we dislike what's there and explore a bunch of
options, only to find out that the current thing actually is the least bad
alternative after all.
--
Brent Royal-Gordon
Architechies
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