Does anyone know some background, why Scala and C# use double arrow (=>) for lambdas instead of single arrow (->)?
Single arrow is more common in literature, is used in Haskell, O’Caml, F#, Groovy etc. and IMO it also looks nicer 🙂
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Does anyone know some background, why Scala and C# use double arrow (=>) for lambdas instead of single arrow (->)?
Single arrow is more common in literature, is used in Haskell, O’Caml, F#, Groovy etc. and IMO it also looks nicer 🙂
Pizza, which was sort of a predecessor for Scala had -> in function types. I remember that C++ programmers were baffled by this choice of symbol. That’s the primary reason why Scala chose => AFAIRC. It seems the C# guys went through the same reasoning.