[erlang-questions] Matthew Sackman's "cut" proposal

[Anthony Ramine]

True, it may be sugar. But it is certainly not saccharine.

While it may look like

	fun map(do_stuff())/1

and

	fun (_2) -> map(do_stuff(), _2) end

are equivalent, they aren’t.

The returned closure in my proposal closes over the pre-supplied arguments, not anything else. This means the code expands to:

	_1 = do_stuff(),
	fun (_2) -> map(_1, _2) end.

The pre-supplied arguments are evaluated at the abstraction site, not when the returned closure is called. This also avoids a whole set of ambiguities caused by the introduction of a new scope.

All things said, I am not usually for syntax sugar and I would not care  if such a proposal were to be rejected. I will probably implement it anyway, to play with it.

I do not like your ‘+’ proposal. I reused ‘/‘ only because it is already abused for funs.

Regards,

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Anthony Ramine

Le 16 déc. 2013 à 18:47, Erik Søe Sørensen <eriksoe@REDACTED> a écrit :

> Disclaimer 2: Surface syntax bikeshed!