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One of my deepest regrets is Ruby vs Rust Would a closure wear arguments {|like, this| } Or |like, this| {}

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eevee

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· Jan 21, 2018

in the span of five minutes i typed `:unwrap` (which is from rust) and `#` (from python) in this lua code

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Old-JS closures traded off too many characters for syntax not specific to the problem domain. That makes it messy and annoying to write and read. But I agree that having great editor support is important too.

5:12 AM · Jan 21, 2018Twitter Web Client

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In my editor I want to write 'fun' then have it expand to a non-ambiguous lambda, where I can fill in the args and the body. Perhaps having a non-textual AST editor conceal the noise of the underlying serialized form.