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From: Erik Naggum <erik@naggum.no>
Subject: Re: LISP feature comparability to Smalltalk??
Date: 1999/05/30
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* atl <anonymous@web.remarq.com>
| I'm fairly new to LISP.  Blocks in Smalltalk(statement sequences enclosed
| in square brackets) are very flexible.  YOu must explicitly execute a
| statement by sending the value message to the block.  You can also assign
| blocks to variables and pass them around.  What LISP feature most closely
| resembles Smalltalk blocks?

  lambda expressions, which are more powerful than blocks, of course, but
  also slightly more verbose unless you invent your own syntax, which is
  also trivial to do.

#:Erik
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