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Re:Moonbit: The fast, compact and user friendly language for... by troupo on Saturday August 19, 2023 @04:39PM (#37192931)
> allowing for type inference on the closures

You can still have your type inference without forcing the unnecessary requirement that local functions be `fn` while top functions be `func`.

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Re:Moonbit: The fast, compact and user friendly language for... by ledauphin on Saturday August 19, 2023 @07:31PM (#37194406)
agreed, but there's still differentiation in syntax, and I was responding to someone asking for no differentiation.
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Re:Moonbit: The fast, compact and user friendly language for... by andrewcobby on Saturday August 19, 2023 @09:04PM (#37194986)
I agree with this, I'm designing a similar language and have gone with this approach. Same syntax for all functions, but top-level functions require explicit type annotations (purely for documentation/sanity more so than a technical requirement).
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