Hi,
I believe that this is valid:
my $thingy = -> $x { say $x };
However, looking through STD.pm the only time we parse for a pblock is
in statement control. So either I'm missing something, or STD.pm is. :-)
I tried using pblock in place of block in circumfix. I think this may
work. However, it doesn't work out so well in Rakudo, because we are
running actions based upon pblock itself rather than leaving actions of
rules that mention pblock to do the work, as STD.pm says needs to be
done. Just as the grammar STD.pm suggests, the problems show up with if
blocks.
Anyways, I'm too tired to refactor that tonight...
And while I'm rambling about this kinda stuff, I discovered this because
I was actually looking at cases where we pass blocks off to things like
grep.
my @b = @a.grep: { $_ > 42 };
I'm thinking that $_ is really a parameter to this block, so in grep
you'd do "if $condition($elem) { ... }" to invoke the conditional block.
However, I guess we'd better make it an optional parameter, otherwise
you can't write stuff like:
sub pointless($call) {
$call();
}
pointless { say "foo" };
Thanks,
Jonathan
