[chuck-dev] feature request: ---

[Michael Clemow]

+1   

That sounds pretty cool!

It seems to indicate perhaps the concept that the { } block could really be shorthand for an unnamed function.  Thus, this would also be possible:

{
...
} => fun void myFun;

or even declare here, assign there, like so:

fun void myFun;

{
…
} => myFun;

the issue of return types is tricky…

you could, like in other languages use default to void, unless the block contained a return statement:

{
0 => int x;
}     // function returns nothing

{
0 => int x;
return x;
}     // function returns an integer

Somehow I doubt that the devs would be into this…  I think that this might add execution overhead and violate the principle of something-er-other.

But even just being able to assume that a code block could be sporked as a separate shred would be pretty awesome.  Still, being able to assign the shred to a variable name would be radical.  "function" is an unused reserved word, right?

{
<<< "hi" >>>;
} => function hi;

spork ~ hi;

Awesome.

-Mike



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On Thursday, December 6, 2012 at 8:29 PM, Tom Lieber wrote:

> I like that alternative.
>  
>  
> On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 7:26 PM, Spencer Salazar <spencer at ccrma.stanford.edu (mailto:spencer at ccrma.stanford.edu)> wrote:
> > I think being able to spork a block of code like this:
> >  
> > spork ~ {
> > // some code
> > }
> >  
> > spork ~ {
> > // some other code
> > }
> >  
> > would, to a lesser but still helpful degree, alleviate the issues this proposal is trying to address. It also has the benefit of recombining existing syntax rather than introducing new syntax.   
> >  
> > spencer
> >  
> >  
> >  
> > On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 6:58 AM, Tom Lieber <tom at alltom.com (mailto:tom at alltom.com)> wrote:
> > > So you could write this:
> > >  
> > >   TubeBell b => dac;
> > >   ---
> > >   while(40::ms => now) {
> > >       1 => b.noteOn;
> > >       1600::ms => now;
> > >       1 => b.noteOff;
> > >   }
> > >   ---
> > >   do {
> > >       Std.mtof(Std.rand2(0, 3) + 60) => b.freq;
> > >   } while(1640::ms => now);
> > >  
> > > and have it work like this:
> > >  
> > >   TubeBell b => dac;
> > >  
> > >   fun void part1() {
> > >       while(40::ms => now) {
> > >           1 => b.noteOn;
> > >           1600::ms => now;
> > >           1 => b.noteOff;
> > >       }
> > >   }
> > >  
> > >   fun void part2() {
> > >       do {
> > >           Std.mtof(Std.rand2(0, 3) + 60) => b.freq;
> > >       } while(1640::ms => now);
> > >   }
> > >  
> > >   spork ~ part1();
> > >   spork ~ part2();
> > >   day => now;
> > >  
> > >  
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