C#3.0 and lambdas

[bearophileHUGS]

On Slashdot there is a discussion about the future C#3.0:
http://developers.slashdot.org/devel...?tid=109&tid=8

http://msdn.microsoft.com/vcsharp/future/

There are many differences, but it looks a bit more like Python:
http://download.microsoft.com/downlo...cification.doc

I like the lambda sintax enough. If there is a single parameter the
parentheses may be omitted. They are required if there aren't
parameters. The statement body allows the lambda to do anything.

x => x + 1 Expression body
x => { return x + 1; } Statement body
(x, y) => x * y Multiple parameters
() => Console.WriteLine() No parameters

The syntax seems nice, but for python the "Statement body" syntax can
be a problem.

Bye,
bearophile

[Reinhold Birkenfeld]

Fredrik Lundh wrote:

Reinhold Birkenfeld wrote:

And I think the discussion that followed proved your point perfectly
Fredrik. Big discussion over fairly minor things, but no "big picture".
Where are the initiatives on the "big stuff" (common documentation
format, improved build system, improved web modules, reworking the
standard library to mention a few) Hey, even Ruby is passing us here.

This is Open Source. If you want an initiative, start one.

you know, this "you have opinions? fuck off!" attitude isn't really helping.

If I had wanted to say "you have opinions? fuck off!", I would have said
"you have opinions? fuck off!".

All I wanted to say is that if you want a common documentation format, and
you want it badly, you should show up on python-dev and offer help.
Unfortunately, there are not as many Python core developers as Perl core
developers, and things move at a slower pace. That's mostly not their fault,
and not anyone's fault. It's a consequence of the amount of time that is
spent on Python-the-core itself.

And why? Well, because it's more fun to program in Python than to program Python.

Reinhold

[Gregory Bond]

Mike Meyer wrote:

This is a well-known phenomenon, having picked up the name "bikeshed"
something like 40 years ago. Google for "bikeshed color".

My favourite "bikeshed" story:

A colleague just joined his local Primary School council. On the agenda
for his first meeting was that the shelter shed needed painting. There
were groans all around and someone said with a loud sigh, "I suppose
we'll have to get the colour consultants back."