Why Ruby?

[Simen kjaeraas]

Stephan Soller <stephan.soller at helionweb.de> wrote:

> 	[1, 2, 3, 4, 5].select((int e){ return e > 3; })
> 		.collect((int e){ return e*e; });
>
> It's already fairly compact. The main overhead is the parameter type and  
> the return statement. I don't believe this can be reduced any more  
> without breaking consistency of the language.

The delegates can be passed by alias parameter, and then be written
without the parameter type:

@property void bar(alias t)() {
     t(3);
}

void main() {
     bar!((e){writeln(e);});
}


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Simen