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by kapuzineralex 5963 days ago
No, sir. :)
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Then would someone mind clarifying this statement by Paul Graham?

"... A famous example of this is Steele & Sussman's discovery, during the writing of Scheme, that Actors and closures were the same thing."

-ref: http://people.csail.mit.edu/gregs/ll1-discuss-archive-html/m...

Closures are a convoluted way of of doing things that objects and actors do better.