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Comment by Zambyte

17 days ago

If you extend the definition of functions to include state, sure, closures are functions. It would be more correct to call them procedures though, which are a superset of functions and operators with side effects.

> An fexpr is a function.

Try to implement a short circuiting logical `and` operator as a function :-)

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