talin at acm dot org enlightened us with:
> I'd be sad to see the notion of "anonymous functions" go
Same here. I think it's a beautyful concept, and very powerful. It
also allows for dynamic function creation in cases where a name would
not be available.
> What about passing an anonymous function as an argument, which is
> the most common case?
I don't really like that. The syntax is way too messy. Just the
funcref = def(args):
...
syntax would suffice for me.
Sybren
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