Re: The Unbearable Staggeringness of Closures (was: The staggering power of closures)

From: Jacek Generowicz (jacek.generowicz_at_cern.ch)
Date: 03/03/04

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Date: 03 Mar 2004 13:03:08 +0100

sstern42@yahoo.com (Sebastian Stern) writes:

> Jacek Generowicz:
> > Could you show me a usage of closures that would make me shout out
> > loud "But that's staggering!"?
>
> Observe and be staggered:
>
> http://www.niksula.cs.hut.fi/~candolin/scheme/beauty.html

But that's staggering!

(This relates to Unlambda in a similar way to how XML relates to
sexprs, right ? :-)

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