[fpc-devel] Delphi anonymous methods

[Sven Barth]

Am 04.03.2013 16:13, schrieb Alexander Klenin:
> On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 1:49 AM, Sven Barth <pascaldragon at googlemail.com> wrote:
>>> The use of "as" is based on an idea of mine. C# for example has "=>" and
>> Oxygene has "->" which I didn't consider much Pascal like. Also the compiler
>> needs to know the type of the lambda so it can correctly typecheck its code
>> (after all we have no type inference (yet :P )). So "lambda PROCVARTYPE as
>> EXPR/STMT" came as the most "natural" and Pascal like variant.
> Alternatively, we can consider to use "is" -- it even has precedent in Ada:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_(programming_language)#.22Hello.2C_world.21.22_in_Ada
Would indeed be a nice idea as well :)

Regards,
Sven