> Hi all,
>
> I would like to start a discussion about a small syntactic sugar addition to
> Vala, that would in my opinion slightly improve the situation with
> asynchronous code. The following code sample should be self explanatory
> about my proposal:
>
> delegate bool HttpResponseCallback (string response);
>
> public class HttpClient : Object {
> public void post_request (string request, HttpResponseCallback cb) {
> cb ("Hello world");
> }
> }
>
> // Current State
> var client = new HttpClient ();
> client.post_request("GET ....", (response) => {
> debug ("got response %s", response);
> return true;
> }
> );
>
>
> // Proposed syntax:
> // Vala would basically use the "pseudo-lambda" _expression_
> // following the method call as a parameter to the method call
> client.post_request("GET ....") (string response) {
> debug ("got response %s", response);
> return true;
> }
>
> I am very open to comments and suggestions.
>
> Cheers,
>
> --
> Ali
>