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On 13/09/2011 10:36 PM, Joshua Cranmer wrote:
> On 9/13/2011 3:29 PM, Tom Anderson wrote:
>> Basically, lambdas can be either method-like (they return values from
>> themselves) or statement-like (they return values from their enclosing
>> methods). Lambdas are method-like in all the current dynamic languages
>> (AFAIK - they certainly are in Smalltalk, Python and Javascript).
>
> As I recall, Smalltalk lambdas were actually discrete blocks (Smalltalk
> has (almost? [1]) no control structure primitives,

I seem to recall it having exactly one: method dispatch. 
No, sorry: it was Dispatch Method. 
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