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Smalltalk's blocks came from Lisp. It's called lambda in Lisp and is arguably the most important idea in Lisp.
by jules 16y ago
Smalltalk's blocks came from Lisp. It's called lambda in Lisp and is arguably the most important idea in Lisp.
- lispm 16y agoRight, and Smalltalk had for a long time no lexical binding, thus returned blocks were never closures. Just as in early Lisp dialects.