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From: Aidan Kehoe <kehoea@parhasard.net>
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Subject: Re: REPL in Lisp
Date: Sat, 13 Jul 2024 08:24:27 +0100
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 Ar an dara lá déag de mí Iúil, scríobh Kaz Kylheku: 

 > On 2024-07-11, Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:
 > > On Wed, 10 Jul 2024 19:11:17 -0700, HenHanna wrote:
 > >
 > >> the acronym (?)  REPL  must be new in Lisp   (and Scheme)
 > >> 
 > >> i'm sure i  never saw it (used or mentioned)   25  years ago.
 > >
 > > There are many new terms coined for old concepts. Like “capture” for 
 > > “lexical binding”, or “dependency injection” for “callback”.
 > 
 > Lexical binding does not imply closure/capture. 

I’ve never seen “capture” used as a general term for closures or for lexical
scope in this way; are we sure it’s what was meant?

 > C has lexical scoping without capture: the bindings are destroyed
 > when their associated scope terminates.

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