Readable Functional Languages

Bijan Parsia bparsia at email.unc.edu
Wed Feb 9 20:51:06 EST 2000


Markus Kohler <kohler at medien.tecmath.com> wrote:

>  Try smalltalk (www.squeak.org for example).
> It's a pure OOPL but it also comes with complete support for closures.
> 
> Markus

Small correction. Squeak's blocks are not (yet) full closures, but go
most of the way for most uses and can be, with a little effort, used as
such.

ANSI Smalltalk, and almost every other Smalltalk implmentation (indeed,
I can't think of any other exceptions), blocks are closures.

Cheers,
Bijan Parsia.



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