transparent lambda

[Mark Mahieu]

On 29 Dec 2009, at 23:15, Neal Gafter wrote:

> On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 2:57 PM, Mark Mahieu <markmahieu at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Your example suggests that I should say something like "breaks from the lambda named 'foo' returning 'bar'", but if its producing a result from the lambda then "return" is exactly the word I'd like to avoid here.
> 
> I would use the word "result":
> 
> The statement
> 
> break Identifier : Expression ;
> 
> terminates execution of the body of the lambda with whose label is given by the identifier, with the result value given by the expression.
> 
> -Neal

Yes, "result" is a superior choice.

However, it's the informal, succinct, conversational description of what the statement does that I'm trying to pin down - the verb, perhaps - which ideally should be suggested by the statement itself.  That's why 'yield' is tempting; it's the verb you use in the spec.

In conversations about BGGA, it was often tricky to tell whether someone was talking about a local or nonlocal return because both would often be informally described as 'returning'.

Maybe I'm looking at this the wrong way though, and it's not so much the *kind* of return/yield that should be emphasised, but *where* it is returning/yielding from.  Which is certainly what this labelling idea suggests.

Mark

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