>I just wish it treated functions as first class citizens. So you cannot store a function in a variable (scalar, list, dict)? And does it have dicts (Python t

>I just wish it treated functions as first class citizens. So you cannot store a function in a variable (scalar, list, dict)? And does it have dicts (Python term) or equivalent (associative arrays)? If not, a lot of things would be more clunky to program, although possible.