Discussion Thread: DIP 1043--Shortened Method Syntax--Final Review

[bauss]

On Tuesday, 28 June 2022 at 12:01:37 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad 
wrote:
> On Tuesday, 28 June 2022 at 10:37:08 UTC, welkam wrote:
>> Programmers rely on visual patters to understand the code. 
>> That's why consistent code look is so important.
>
> It isn't ideal to allow this for methods as they are «messages» 
> to objects and not lambdas. I did use it in Dart, because it 
> was shorter, but it does make classes look more messy.
>
> It makes more sense for pure free standing functions as they 
> can be viewed as named lambdas.
>
> I think "=>" should imply `pure` then it would make some sense 
> to have two notations for the same thing.

It makes a lot of sense for properties too, in classes as well.