[fpc-pascal] [fpc-devel] Nested function closures
Ryan Joseph
genericptr at gmail.com
Wed Apr 28 03:18:35 CEST 2021
> On Apr 27, 2021, at 4:53 PM, Graeme Geldenhuys via fpc-pascal <fpc-pascal at lists.freepascal.org> wrote:
>
> Why must the anonymous function repeat all that information again,
> as shown in the quoted code above? Can't the compiler figure all
> that out simply by inference? All the developer should have to do
> is give the 2 parameters a name, and a function body (block of
> code). Thus you could end up with something like this:
>
>
> value.SortEntities((a, b) ->
> begin
> // do stuff with a and b, then
> // return some integer.
> end
> );
I agree it's verbose but the syntax is already decided upon and implemented already.
Regards,
Ryan Joseph
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