Guys, I had to page through *eight pages* of quotes, at least six levels deep, before I found a two-line new comment. Please [snip] unnecessarily quoted text. Leave enough to establish context, every email doesn't need to be a full archive of the entire discussion to this point. On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 04:09:47PM -0600, Ryan Gonzalez wrote: [...]
The question mark still looks like Perl.
What about a reserved word instead?
We already have perfectly good syntax for lambdas. Making them even more concise is not important enough to use another keyword, with the consequences of preventing code from using that word in the future, and breaking existing code that uses that word. I like lambda. But trying to make them even shorter and more concise (or if you want to be cynical, more cryptic) is not on my agenda. -1 -- Steven