Syntax...

[Rémi Forax]

Le 21/11/2009 21:04, Neal Gafter a écrit :
> Vladimir-
>
> We've been carefully avoiding keywords up to now, but I agree using 
> keywords could result in more natural-reading programs.  The problem 
> is the risk of breaking existing programs.  However, that is somewhat 
> less severe now that there is a syntax for "exotic" identifiers.  In 
> JDK7 a keyword can still be used as an identifier by using the exotic 
> identifier escape syntax.  So the breakage is not as bad as it would 
> have been earlier.  It might be possible to use context-sensitive 
> keywords, too.
>
> I would probably want to use something like 'fun' in place of '#' for 
> function types, and 'lambda' or 'fun' in place of '#' for lambda 
> expressions.
>
> fun int(int) plus1 = lambda (int x) x+1;
>
> I also prefer the result type on the right-hand-side of a function 
> types, but somepeople seem to have trouble with that:
>
> fun (int)->int plus1 = lambda (int x) x+1;

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I vote for fun and lambda too.
Neal do you have planned to try to patch the parser to see if their
introduction is possible or not ?

BTW, I am one of the mob that doesn't like arrow, it's too warlike for me :)

cheers,
Rémi