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Comment by xigoi

2 days ago

I object to the claim that a Lisp-2 has first-class functions.

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iLemming  2 hours 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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