transparent lambda

[Mark Mahieu]

On 29 Dec 2009, at 21:11, Neal Gafter wrote:

> On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 1:02 PM, Mark Mahieu <markmahieu at googlemail.com> wrote:
> 
>   On the other hand, labeled returns could be used with the method name as a label too.
> 
> Maybe... labels don't currently shadow method names though, so what would be the meaning of "return foo:;" inside a lambda labeled "foo" inside a method called "foo"?
> 
> These aren't ordinary labels that appear in the label namespace.  I'd suggest making it an error to use a lambda label corresponding to the name of the enclosing method.

Fair enough I suppose.


> By the way, instead of using a new keyword-ish thing, you could also use "break".

I tried that one out on a few examples earlier today.  It's a great fit for void-result lambdas, but I couldn't make up my mind whether I liked it quite so much when there's an actual result.  It has potential, I think.


Mark

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