Re: Another example for syntactically lightweight closures
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- Subject: Re: Another example for syntactically lightweight closures
- From: Bret Victor <bret@...>
- Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2008 07:45:02 +0000 (UTC)
Miles Bader <miles.bader <at> necel.com> writes:
> |a, b|(a + b)
> => function (a, b) return (a + b) end
>
> |a|{ print (a) }
> => function (a) print (a) end
I thing I like about Lua syntax is that punctuation is kept minimal,
and words are used (in, do, end) when that's how you would read the
code out loud.
A Lua-like syntax for closures might mimic Lua's for-loop syntax:
for a,b in some(expression) do ... end
Here's an expression closure:
local add = (a,b in a + b)
=> local add = function (a,b) return a + b end
local sum = fold(t, 0, (a,b in a + b))
=> local sum = fold(t, 0, function (a,b) return a + b end)
Here's a statement block closure:
local happyprint = x in do print(x .. "!") end
=> local happyprint = function (x) print(x .. "!") end
table.foreach(t, x in do print(x .. "!") end)
=> table.foreach(t, function (x) print(x .. "!") end)
I'm not perfectly happy with either of these, but it's a start, maybe.