[rules-dev] Functional programming in Drools: Brackets and Commas

[Mark Proctor]

On 20/10/2011 12:43, Toni Rikkola wrote:
> Yes parentheses.
>
> And I don't know the answer to the next question, just asking because 
> I have seen it work in other languages :-) Not a must have, in other 
> cases using parentheses is cleaner.
It does look nice, however languages that allow this tend to be more 
limited in scope. I was thinking about this myself the other day - 
optional parenthesis and optional comma separation. We'll look into it 
as a secondary consideration, it may become possible for some limited 
use cases....

Mark
>
> Toni
>
> On Oct 20, 2011, at 2:25 PM, Wolfgang Laun wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On 20 October 2011 13:15, Toni Rikkola <toni.rikkola at gmail.com 
>> <mailto:toni.rikkola at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>>     I'm just asking if we can drop the brackets and maybe even the
>>     commas to get a cleaner look.
>>
>>
>> Do you mean parentheses, i.e. ()?
>>
>> How will a parser be able to determine the end of a parameterlist if 
>> there is one call inside the other?
>>
>> -W
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