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Subject: Re: Quotations revisited
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Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2013 11:23:20 +0100
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Michael L Gassanenko wrote:
> So we get something like:
> : foo
>    ...
>    {{ a b }} HERE SWAP ALLOT [DOES> DUP a SWAP b + ;]
>    ...
> ;

This is quite reminiscent of a C++11 lambda function:

  [a,b]() { return a + b; }

(I'm not sure if that's good or bad.)