Incidently, a long (as in over 30 years!) time ago I postulated the
addition of a new reserved word "proc" to Icon specifically to implement
anonymous functions. This would have been used exactly as
you want [I think]:
worker(10,20,proc(x) {x*x})
which would function *roughly* the same as:
worker(10,20,proc)
...
procedure proc(x)
return x*x
end
(The major difference being the use of the same scoping rules
found in co-expression definition.)
In the end I left it out because Icon had enough syntactic
verbage and adding more code in the environment of the
day (64KB address spaces!) wasn't appealing when
co-expressions could give you something similar with no
additional language implementation required.
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