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   albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl to dxforth@gmail.com   
   Re: quotations   
   10 Feb 25 14:50:55   
   
   In article <9f5d42ff6471fb5bd1c209e39527b7cdf715546c@i2pn2.org>,   
   dxf   wrote:   
   >On 10/02/2025 2:45 am, Anton Ertl wrote:   
   >> dxf  writes:   
   >>> What language do you know where   
   >>> nested definitions are nameless?   
   >>   
   >> Just to name a few: Lisp, Smalltalk, Postscript, Joy, Factor.  A much   
   >> longer list can be found at   
   >> .   
   >   
   >"The use of anonymous functions is a matter of style.  Using them is never   
   > the only way to solve a problem; each anonymous function could instead be   
   > defined as a named function and called by name."   
   >   
   >So it's a style - a fashion statement.   
   >   
   This remembers me of FORTRAN code long ago.   
      
      print( sin(t*x))   
      
   was too hard to understand.   
      
   It is recommended to do:   
      
      a = t*x   
      b= sin(a)   
      print(b)   
      
   See also my post about the dispatch table for lisp in this thread.   
      
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