Anonymous function syntax

[deadalnix]

Le 22/09/2011 00:29, bearophile a écrit :
> Walter Bright:
>
>> D
>>       (a,b) { return a + b; }
>
> In D to define a true lambda you need types too:
> auto f = (int a,int b){ return a + b; };
>
> For D I think I'd like a syntax like:
> { int a, int b =>  a + b }
> That in some cases becomes just:
> { a,b =>  a + b }
>

That would be less readable for somebody coming from a C styled 
language. Curly braces for body and parenthesis for arguments is 
something very familiar.

This makes Javascript's and D's closures the most readable for somebody 
having this background.