Rust really missed the boat on its syntax. How's it ever going to get such a fine community-provided tool as http://fuckingclosuresyntax.com ?
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Replying to @Gankra_
Fun fact: We had Rust's closure syntax for a brief moment in the pre-release days
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Replying to @jckarter
ahaha, really? Like you just directly copied it? Or was there a third basis from which they were both derived?
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Replying to @Gankra_
Ruby started the whole {|| } thing which Rust's syntax evolved from too IIRC
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Replying to @jckarter
I was responsible for the || syntax in Rust, IIRC. Rationale: it didn’t require lookahead.
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Replying to @pcwalton
That was our rationale too, though we went with the Ruby flavor since we also wanted to support trailing blocks like Ruby does
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Replying to @jckarter
We supported those for a while too, but abandoned them
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