Why “perma goodbye”?

Go has a similar function declaration, and it supports anonymous functions/lambdas.

E.g. in go, an anonymous func like this could be defined as

foo := func(x int, _ int) int { … }

So I’d imagine in Zig it should be feasible to do something like

var foo = fn(x: i32, i32) i32 { … }

unless I’m missing something?

They could still fix it with arrow functions, but it’s always gonna look weird.

Some other people have tried to explain how they prefer types before variable declarations, and they’ve done a decent job of it, but it’s the function return type being buried that bothers me the most. Since I read method signatures far more often than method bodies.

fn i32 add(…) is always going to scan better to me.