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by xigoi 295 days ago
I object to the claim that a Lisp-2 has first-class functions.
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iLemming 293 days ago
What? Functions can be passed as arguments? Check! Returned from functions? Check! Stored in variables? Check! Lisp-2 just means functions and vars live in separate namespaces, that's all. In every other aspect they are first-class.
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xigoi 293 days ago
The separate namespaces mean that functions are considered as something fundamentally different from other values.
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