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Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2011 03:01:50 -0400
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On 14/09/2011 2:49 AM, someone pretending to be me wrote:
> 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. DM: like Digital Menses? From times when I get to
> wear my skirts /giggle
> I was thinking of lits. That lits I am on? Worse than snorting coke is
> my lits!
>
> Leave about fucking with my lits and I get total Xross!
> Nobody talks to me but me. Got it?

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Whoever is pulling childish pranks: please piss off and let us adults 
discuss computer programming in peace.

There may be newsgroups where your brand of silliness is appropriate. 
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