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Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2015 09:04:25 +1100
Subject: Re: lambdak: multi-line lambda implementation in native Python
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On Sun, Jan 18, 2015 at 8:56 AM, Gregory Ewing
<greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:
> Ruby doesn't have that problem because it doesn't
> have functions, only methods, and the only thing you
> can do with a method in Ruby is call it.

So functions aren't first-class objects in Ruby? Bleh. I've become
quite accustomed to passing them around casually, in several
languages. Even C lets you pass function pointers around.

ChrisA