I find Haskell's syntax for lambda ugly af, but it seems I'm the only one??
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I wouldn't say I like it but I would say that pretty much every other syntax for lambda that I've seen looks worse 😅 except for the unicode λ in Granule, of course 😉
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You could go the Java or JS route, but that way leads to terrifying 'covering grammars' 262.ecma-international.org/7.0/#prod-Cove
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I wouldn't mind something like (x -> x*x)
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I think the idea is to have parens be mandatory. But yeah, it could also be an issue for editor support and future language growth.
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Replying to @brendanzab @buggymcbugfix and @starsandspirals
Or were you thinking of the parens being mandatory?
parens being mandatory doesn't quite help because normal expressions can also be written with parens, e.g. `f (g x x) 2` and `f (g x -> x) 2`
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