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Aren't Actors and Closures the same thing?
by TNO 17y ago
Aren't Actors and Closures the same thing?
- kapuzineralex 17y agoNo, sir. :)
- marshallp 17y agoClosures are a convoluted way of of doing things that objects and actors do better.
- TNO 17y agoThen 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/msg01552.html http://people.csail.mit.edu/gregs/ll1-discuss-archive-html/m...