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Re:R adds native pipe and lambda syntax by thotsBgone on Sunday December 06, 2020 @02:20AM (#25321791)
A better solution is just to use the word 'lambda', and let your text editor render it as a lambda symbol if you want (my emacs does this).
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Re:R adds native pipe and lambda syntax by BigJono on Sunday December 06, 2020 @03:04AM (#25321944)
No, that's a shithouse solution.

Everyone that doesn't have a fancy IDE now has 6-8 extra useless characters for something that should be syntax.

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Re:R adds native pipe and lambda syntax by thotsBgone on Sunday December 06, 2020 @05:06PM (#25327061)
How is it different than the word "function"?
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Re:R adds native pipe and lambda syntax by BigJono on Sunday December 06, 2020 @05:21PM (#25327178)
It's not, that's why people use arrow syntax in languages like Javascript for short in-lined functions.
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