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Subject: Re: new Java lambda syntax
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On 9/8/2011 4:27 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> On 9/8/2011 6:40 PM, BGB wrote:
>> On 9/8/2011 3:18 PM, Roedy Green wrote:
>>> On Thu, 08 Sep 2011 13:19:22 -0700, markspace<-@.> wrote, quoted or
>>> indirectly quoted someone who said :
>>>
>>>
>>>> x => x + 1
>>>> (x) => x + 1
>>>
>>> That seems backwards to me. Surely you really mean
>>> x<= x + 1
>>>
>>> But<= is already taken. So you would have to use something like the
>>> Algol := or<- or one of the Unicode arrows.
>>>
>>
>> well, I think the point is that they chose the C# syntax, which uses
>> "=>".
>>
>> granted, this would probably not have been my first choice (my own
>> language uses the syntax "fun(args...) body").
>>
>> so:
>> "fun(x)x+1"
>> or (more verbose/explicit):
>> "fun(x:int):int { return x+1; }"
>>
>> (note: "x:int" is because my language uses JS/AS style declaration
>> syntax...).
>
> As a curiosum then C# also allows:
>
> delegate(int x) { return x+1; }
>

this was their older syntax, before they added "=>", why? who knows...

delegate would work, except it is a question if the Java people would 
have wanted to add this keyword either...