Discussion Thread: DIP 1043--Shortened Method Syntax--Community Review Round 1

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On Saturday, 5 February 2022 at 20:15:33 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad 
wrote:
> On Saturday, 5 February 2022 at 14:10:51 UTC, Paul Backus wrote:
>> D already supports this shortened syntax for anonymous 
>> functions:
>>
>>     (int x) { return x + 1; }
>>     (int x) => x + 1
>>
>> So, allowing it for named functions too is a logical extension 
>> of a language feature that already exists.
>
> Hardly, I would read arrow as a math-like lambda by convention.

The proposal seems straight forward to me:

auto multiplyBy10 = (int a) => a * 10; // already exists.
auto multiplyBy10(int x) => x * 10; // proposed: Shortened Method 
Syntax

Nothing to see here.

Just do it.