Lambda syntax, etc

[Nick Sabalausky]

"grauzone" <none at example.net> wrote in message 
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> bearophile wrote:
>> Let's play more; then what do you think about (all the following are 
>> legal):
>>
>> auto r1 = range.find({ x -> x.weight > 100 });
>> auto r2 = range.find({ x :: return x.weight > 100; });
>> auto r3 = range.find({ x :: stmt1(x); stmt2; });
>> auto r4 = range.find({ x, y :: stmt1; return foo(y); });
>>
>> I like those enough, they seem balanced, uniform, not too much 
>> error-prone, they have only one visual chunk, short enough and easy to 
>> write :-)
>
> Agreed.
>
> Especially I like that "normal" and "functional" uses have distinct 
> syntax. This is much better than the proposal, to allow omission of the 
> return statement, and to return last value of the last expression 
> statement instead (like in (x){if(x>0) x+=1; x;}).
>

I'd rather have everything use "::" (consistent), and then say that the 
right-hand side of :: can be either A: one or more statements ("normal") or 
B: an expression ("functional").