Prototype: Headless anonymous function syntax#199
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Allow anonymous function syntax like
->_[1]to meanx->x[1]as discussed in JuliaLang/julia#38713Exists in part of the same design space as #148
You can try this in the REPL by checking out this branch and using
JuliaSyntax.enable_in_core!. For example:With this setup, you can also edit JuliaSyntax.jl to play with different lowering scenarios and see them almost immediately in the REPL using Revise. (May need to run a command twice for Revise to pick things up.)
Note that having lowering implemented here in
Exprconversion is just for prototyping/experimentation. It would need to go into julia-syntax.scm in a real implementation.Meta-commentary
One downside of this proposal (as a kind-of alternative to #148) is that we can't neatly express data filtering operations on rows of tabular data without naming the row, because the row is used multiple times: