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webjprgm
on May 8, 2015
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The Earl Grey programming language
I'm not a fan of using -> like CoffeeScript does. It doesn't seem to mean function-body / algorithm-to-do-the-thing to me. That operator makes sense for pointers or for function return value type expressions.
breuleux
on May 8, 2015
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I think that's just because you are used to see it used that way. And it's not like CoffeeScript invented this.
Haskell does it:
\x -> x + 1
OCaml does it:
fun (x : int) -> x + 1
It is very common in functional languages to use -> both for function bodies and return types.
webjprgm
on May 9, 2015
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I suppose. Kinda like => for "maps to" in some math / theory classes.
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