On Wed, Nov 11, 2020 at 12:37 PM David Rodrigues
wrote:
> My suggestion is to reuse the keyword `as` to set a variable that will
> represent its own closure. It is more flexible once that we could choose
> any name and reuse in nested closures. It is pretty similar to how SQL
> works too.
>
> fun
> Is it `returnType as $thing` ? That doesn't read well, but I don't see
us making return type movable. as/use should be placable in either order,
but maybe we give them required order anyway?
I don't know if that would be a problem, because today we can have it
"function(): Type use($x)", so "T
On Fri, Nov 20, 2020, at 10:01 AM, David Rodrigues wrote:
> > Is it `returnType as $thing` ? That doesn't read well, but I don't see
>> us making return type movable. as/use should be placable in either order,
>> but maybe we give them required order anyway?
>
> I don't know if that would be a p
On Fri, Nov 20, 2020 at 11:40 AM Larry Garfield
wrote:
> > (5) function $lambda(... $args): returnType use ($captures...) {}
> >
> > To be honest, as I typed what came to mind, I ended up preferring this
> last
> > option.
>
> I kind of like that option, too.
Agreed that this has some attractiv
On Fri, Nov 20, 2020 at 5:02 PM David Rodrigues
wrote:
> > Is it `returnType as $thing` ? That doesn't read well, but I don't see
> us making return type movable. as/use should be placable in either order,
> but maybe we give them required order anyway?
>
> I don't know if that would be a probl
On Fri, Nov 20, 2020 at 12:58 PM Guilliam Xavier
wrote:
> > I don't know if that would be a problem, because today we can have it
> > "function(): Type use($x)", so "Type use($x)"?
> >
>
> No we can't, try it (Parse error). The correct order is
> "function() use($x): Type".
>
>
Ugh. That's ugly.
> No we can't, try it (Parse error). The correct order is
> "function() use($x): Type".
Oh! You are right!
In this case, we still have the old idea:
function() as $lambda use ($x): int {}
> Ugh. That's ugly. I want to say we should fix it, but the horse has left
the stables, so it's too late to
