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by jashkenas
5985 days ago
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First, links for context. Guido's take:
http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=147358 Arcieri's take:
http://www.unlimitednovelty.com/2009/03/indentation-sensitiv... It's not hard if we disallow statements, and make everything into an expression that returns a value -- something that Ruby does right. The value of a block of statements is just the value of the last statement in the block. So, whether you call it a function, or a method, or a lambda, or a block, whitespace with multi-line expressions can be made to work. The commonly-cited lambda-with-multiple-prints example, in CoffeeScript: count: ->
print 'one'
print 'two'
print 'three'
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