[fpc-devel] Delphi anonymous methods

[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

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Alexander S. Klenin