From: "garysweaver (Gary Weaver)" <garysweaver@...>
Date: 2013-04-12T04:11:29+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:54191] [ruby-trunk - Feature #8168] Feature request: support for (single) statement lambda syntax/definition


Issue #8168 has been updated by garysweaver (Gary Weaver).


Thinking about it a bit more, I guess it would have to be context sensitive. Just some character that is parsed when the block is being parsed that indicates that the following statement is a block. So maybe the best that could be done without a lot of overhead is whitespace between it, the method, and the block.

Then you just need to pick a good operator. I don't like the smiley here, but the world needs more smiles, so here it is for an example:

some_method :some, :args, :here, -> :) expression

Then you could also do:

def hello :) puts "hello world"

A single character that doesn't have many pixels like a colon would be best/most readable:

def hello : puts "hello world"

but colon is used by itself already in the ternary/conditional operator ?: (i.e., a ? b : c) so that might be confusing. Equals might look too much like an assignment:

def hello = puts "hello world"

I wish colon would work, because it would be a lot nicer-looking.

def a: b; def b: c; def c: d;

That just looks nice! :)
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Feature #8168: Feature request: support for (single) statement lambda syntax/definition
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/8168#change-38468

Author: garysweaver (Gary Weaver)
Status: Feedback
Priority: Normal
Assignee: matz (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Category: 
Target version: 


Abstract: Proposal for single statement lambda support, either via a new type of stab '->>', such that '->> some value;' would be equivalent to '-> {some value;}', or by just supplying a stab operator '->' with a value instead of a block (which would be more intuitive).

Background: Often proc and lambda blocks are one statement long. Braces or do/end in this case are mostly unnecessary and result in less beautiful code

Pros: may reduce amount of syntax required, especially if can re-use same operator.

Cons: different stab operator may be confusing because of similarity to existing lambda operator. With either proposal, may cause additional overhead for interpreters.



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