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

[Max Samukha]

On Saturday, 5 February 2022 at 16:19:42 UTC, Doigt wrote:

> Except commonly, and to take two popular examples: JavaScript 
> and C#, the arrow notation is not understood to be a shorthand 
> for a return expression but just an expression.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/language-reference/operators/lambda-expressions#expression-lambdas:

"An expression lambda *returns* the result of the expression..."

> I don't think I'll use this new feature if I can't make my code 
> base consistent in style. It makes no sense to me to have 
> things like
> int myFunc (int a) => something;
> void myProc (int a) { something; }

The former is equivalent to int myFunc (int a) { return 
something; }. The latter - void myProc (int a) { something; 
return; }.

> it looks bad and it makes it seems like void is a special case 
> that is not immediately obvious why the arrow notation is not 
> used.