fn add(x: i32, i32) i32
fn add(x: i32, i32): i32Go has a similar function declaration, and it supports anonymous functions/lambdas.
E.g. in go, an anonymous func like this could be defined as
foo := func(x int, _ int) int { … }
So I’d imagine in Zig it should be feasible to do something like
var foo = fn(x: i32, i32) i32 { … }
unless I’m missing something?
See
https://github.com/golang/go/issues/59122
https://github.com/golang/go/issues/21498
res := is.Map(func(i int)int{return i+1}).Filter(func(i int) bool { return i % 2 == 0 }).
Reduce(func(a, b int) int { return a + b })
res := is.Map((i) => i+1).Filter((i)=>i % 2 == 0).Reduce((a,b)=>a+b)Some other people have tried to explain how they prefer types before variable declarations, and they’ve done a decent job of it, but it’s the function return type being buried that bothers me the most. Since I read method signatures far more often than method bodies.
fn i32 add(…) is always going to scan better to me.
Elixir is trying something, I don’t know yet whether it will be better. But their solution is based on a decision about how to do overloading that I suspect makes for maintenance problems later. So it’s gonna have to be good to offset the consequence.