22 Dec
2007
22 Dec
'07
10:18 a.m.
On Sat, 22 Dec 2007, Cristian Baboi wrote:
The thing is I think that for a language to have "first-class" functions, it must be "homoiconic" if I understand the terms correctly.
You're confusing functions with the terms that are used to define them. The terms aren't first-class, the functions are. This is intentional: the only way you can tell functions apart is if they give you different results for the same parameter. Otherwise, what you have isn't a function but a combination of a function and some extra structure. -- flippa@flippac.org "My religion says so" explains your beliefs. But it doesn't explain why I should hold them as well, let alone be restricted by them.