With implicit line continuation VB.NET 10 now allows you to write the multiline Lambdas. That means like your normal Functions you can write functions under Lambdas. So now you may write like, Dim arrInt As Integer () = { 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 , 9 , 10 } Dim myFinc = Array .FindAll(arrInt, ...

... . Note that it doesn't prevent them also being closures (i.e. something which captures state outside itself) but that semantically, closures and lambdas are orthogonal concepts. (In other words, there are lambdas that aren't closures – like #bool() {true} – and there are closures which aren't lambdas – such as the inner class Bar in public class Foo { int a; class ...

... write a = = 12. In Python that throws an error. 17) The scope rules for giving values to variables in lambdas are wonky. Say you want to create an array of 10 lambdas, the first one of which takes an integer and adds 0 to it and returns the result, the next one which takes an integer and adds 1 to it and returns the result, etc. You&# ...

... to me how they are solving a related problem in C++. Apparently the next version of the C++ standard will include lambdas, and they're doing this: (int x) -> int { return M(x, q, r); ... An interesting approach but one that doesn't immediately solve our problem here; we cannot make lambdas capture by value by default without a huge breaking change. Capturing by value would have to require ...

... PLINQ (Parallel LINQ), a parallel implementation of the LINQ engine, and Task Parallel Library, which exposes parallel constructs via method calls.Visual Basic and C# languages innovations such as statement lambdas, implicit line continuations, dynamic dispatch, named parameters, and optional parameters.Full support for IronPython, IronRuby, and F#.Support for a subset of the .NET Framework and ...

12:27 XKCD with another brilliant one: Timelines of movie character interactions. ping.fm/6kYfK # 12:44 Wow, I only just realized today that I could use C# lambdas for event handlers. How did I miss that all this time? # 14:28 Why don't more web twitter clients have a "mark as read" or "clear page"? # 14:45 @mochaproduction Yummy! # 15:17 @jeffwilcox On a Monday? You're ...