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I'm not a fan of using -> like CoffeeScript does. It doesn't seem to mean function-body / algorithm-to-do-the-thing to me. That operator makes sense for pointers or for function return value type expressions.

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I think that's just because you are used to see it used that way. And it's not like CoffeeScript invented this.

Haskell does it:

    \x -> x + 1

OCaml does it:

    fun (x : int) -> x + 1

It is very common in functional languages to use -> both for function bodies and return types.

I suppose. Kinda like => for "maps to" in some math / theory classes.

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