Subject: Re: bug#52063: 28.0.60; Confusing presentation of lambda

From: Stefan Monnier <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2021 11:58:02 -0500

Lars Ingebrigtsen [2021-11-26 16:00:43] wrote:
> Stefan Monnier <[email-masked]> writes:
>> My objection was to:
>>
>>     (Which would also mean that we'd have to allow `declare' in lambdas,
>>     which I think we should anyway.)
>
> You don't think we should allow `declare' in lambdas?  It'd allow us to
> implement things like "named lambdas" more easily.

I object to linking the two issues because one is about the `lambda`
expressions in source code and the other is about runtime representation
of function values and the two are fundamentally distinct (e.g. most
runtime function values are compiled).

        Stefan