Re: PATCH: anonymous functions, full patch

[Peter Stephenson <pws@csr.com>]

Bart Schaefer wrote:
> Seems a little odd, though, to call something a function when you can't
> pass any arguments to it.  I'm not going to have time to look today, but
> how difficult is this?
> 
>     function { print $@ } args go here

Shouldn't be too horrific, but will require parsing changes, which is
why I didn't puruse it.

> Two final remarks:  One: should this be considered a bug?
> 
> torch% torch% () ()
> function function> {                 
> function function> print oops
> function function> }
> zsh: parse error near `\n'
> 
> Once you've got the double empty parens there seems to be nowhere to go
> that doesn't end in a parse error.

Doesn't really surprise me.

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