More information on Google's new web language, Dash

Re:More information on Google's new web language, Dash by zmmmmm on Saturday September 10, 2011 @10:43PM (#2983041)

I think that going from a language with real genuine closures to one with the half measure that Python has (lambdas) would actually be a backwards step.

Plus I agree with the other (downvoted) commenter that whitespace would be a huge annoyance. A language for the web has to be something robust to copying and pasting to / from web pages.

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Re:More information on Google's new web language, Dash by andybak on Sunday September 11, 2011 @05:20AM (#2983526)

Closures and lambda (anonymous functions) are orthogonal features. Python has closures (and one last limitation related to scope and rebinding was fixed in Python 3)

Furthermore although I agree Python's limited lambda's make it slightly uglier to do some constructs, it's merely syntactic sugar.

First-order functions are the critical feature. Whether you are compelled to give them a name or not isn't critical.

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