[haXe] blocks and yield?

[Nicolas Cannasse]

> java doesn't have a yield in the vm either (as far as i know), but
> groovy does it like this
> 
> public method(int x,Closure c)  {
> // snip
>  	c.call(myparam);
> // snip
> }
> 
> called with
> 
> obj.method(1) { p ->
> 	println p
> }
> 
> OR
> 
> obj.method(1,{p-> println p})

This is only a "local" yield, so less powerful, since you can't escape
the scope of the Closure.

It can be done currently in haXe :

public function method( x, f ) {
// snip
    f(456);
// snip
}

obj.method(1,function(p) { trace(p); });

So your proposal is mainly about having another syntax of function
parameters, which would save only a few chars (the 'function' keyword).
I'm not sure then it's worth adding a specific syntax for that.

Nicolas