Transparancy

[Paul Benedict]

In jest, simply introduce the "long return" syntax. Those are already
keywords! :)

On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 1:59 PM, Mikael Grev <grev at miginfocom.com> wrote:
> Brian,
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> Either you read it wrong or, maybe more probable, my "swedish" english isn't tuned enough to express what I meant. I actually meant to think about the future, but don't make the present bad just to keep an option for a (IMO) bad solution open in the future.
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> What I mean is:
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> New things (long returns) should look and feel new. Things that works as before should look the same.
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> So "return" should be a local return. As Neal mentioned just now that isn't maybe 100% accurate for a language expert, but I, and I think must developers, will see the body of the lambda as a method body and expect the return from it to just leave that body. Hence a simple "return" will do what's expected and yield would just confuse.
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> Cheers,
> Mikael
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> On Jul 7, 2010, at 20:42 PM, Brian Goetz wrote:
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>>> I think it is a bit backwards to introduce something new for a current thing to keep an option to have something current mean something new in the future.
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>> Seriously?  It would be outright incompetence for a language steward to *not* consider what might happen in the future.
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>> But your point is taken.  In future, perhaps I should not be sharing my thoughts on the future direction of the language with the public, because its obviously too confusing.
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