Re: This (Javascript) function has an onClick event that calls a function that calls This function

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[...] ISTM that it would be very difficult to fulfil the [Javascript]
language specification by compilation to machine code or anything
like it. ...

Au contraire. The effect under discussion here is late binding.
This is completely orthogonal to compilation of source to machine
code. Functions may be registered in an environment and later
looked up in it. Whether this is done by compiled or interpreted
code doesn't matter to language comformity.


[...] Javascript cannot match Delphi in performance; ...

And neither can Lisp; it has late binding, too (or used to) - or
perhaps call-by-name is the more correct term, I'm not exactly
sure.

But there have been compiled Lisp implementations.

Groetjes,
Maarten Wiltink


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