Ruby and Python

[Fredrik Lundh]

"graham" wrote:
> It's fine if you want to go on believing that Python has first class
> functions, but the fact that you have to manually form closures for
> functions means that they are not first class in the accepted (and
> admittedly informal) definition of "first class".

do you have any references that support your definition
of "first class"?

(the references I've found all talk about how data values
are treated, not what syntax you have to use to create
those values...)

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