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From: dxf <dxforth@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: quotations
Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2025 13:00:58 +1100
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On 10/02/2025 2:45 am, Anton Ertl wrote:
> dxf <dxforth@gmail.com> 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
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anonymous_function#List_of_languages>.

"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.