Path: csiph.com!news.nrbbs.org!border-1.nntp.ord.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local-2.nntp.ord.giganews.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!local-4.nntp.ord.giganews.com!news.giganews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 10 Oct 2026 23:14:51 +0000 From: steve g Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp Subject: Re: GNU Emacs native compiled functions References: <113ovuj$23t9c$1@dont-email.me> <114h24r$9nm$1@reader1.panix.com> <114h26m$2b0po$3@dont-email.me> <114kain$3erqe$1@dont-email.me> <114oc02$qbqp$1@dont-email.me> <114odai$qp0b$1@dont-email.me> <114piou$14lmv$2@dont-email.me> <114pno3$16g53$1@dont-email.me> <114pqg5$17lne$1@dont-email.me> <5T_bS.71191$4Fu9.56234@fx05.ams4> <27248.58134.739884.512819@parhasard.net> <87v78mz15a.fsf_-_@debian> <87wlsmo83m.fsf@debian> <118kcc1$1mri1$2@dont-email.me> <87wlrvendh.fsf@gmail.com> <20261005164228.546@kylheku.com> <11a3mvl$29qvc$1@dont-email.me> Date: Sat, 10 Oct 2026 19:14:48 -0400 Message-ID: <877bjp172v.fsf@gmail.com> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Cancel-Lock: sha1:byBkB4dlhFnlIV0BsjhXjmkoloA= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Lines: 14 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-Trace: sv3-EaWN4MiPp8W4iEmPiVB32eJKLSsqaoM6lnTg7TglINYYBbTMP02KX701E5GJ9/EUCKDNbzcGb/0OWDc!xJz+TP8nkpqX2Jc0c1KUREjRbSDlz8oq/RWPbx/IIYWImzI= X-Complaints-To: abuse@giganews.com X-DMCA-Notifications: http://www.giganews.com/info/dmca.html X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.lisp:61723 Lawrence D’Oliveiro writes: > On Tue, 06 Oct 2026 08:34:15 -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote: > I can’t imagine how you could have functions as first-class objects > without closures. At the very least, you would end up writing a lot > more repetitive code, which I hate. > For example, how would you deal with this, for counting words in an > HTML page after stripping all the markup (from > ): M-x count-words