Re: New EEP draft: Pinning operator ^ in patterns

Richard Carlsson <[email protected]>
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Den fre 22 jan. 2021 kl 15:33 skrev Richard Carlsson <
[email protected]>:

> The other thing would be that you could no longer move around a fun or
> list comprehension to a different location and expect it to keep working as
> before - and I think that particularly for funs, this is a fundamental
> assumption with most people, even if they don't use shadowing today.
>

I should add that for some people generating Erlang code automatically,
this would be a total blocker, because they often rely on this assumption
that each fun creates a new local scope in itself for the variables in the
head, and thus you can insert it anywhere. Also several macros out there
rely on this.

    /Richard
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