Re: anonymous functions? anonymous variables

Hah.... wrong mailing list. Oh well.
If it is up to a vote the former seems more intuitive and scalable (don't
have to count the variables).

On Sun, Aug 16, 2020 at 12:00 PM Michael Kay <mike-JkSD5nQpfvpWk0Htik3J/[email protected]> wrote:

> In my XML Prague 2020 paper my proposal would allow
>
> _{$2}
>
> though that feels a little bit too terse...
>
> Michael Kay
> Saxonica
>
> On 16 Aug 2020, at 02:29, Ihe Onwuka <[email protected]> wrote:
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> Since I don't have to give a function a name it would also be nice if I
> didn't have to name variables I am not using.
>
> e.g
>
> Suppose I have a constraint that a function must have 2 arguments but I
> only need to use one I have to write
>
> function ($k, $v) {$v}
>
> instead of something like
>
> function (_,$v) {$v}
>
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