From: Matthew Smillie <M.B.Smillie@...>
Date: 2006-06-12T21:25:52+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby for Highschoolers?

On Jun 12, 2006, at 12:42, Christian Neukirchen wrote:

> Matthew Smillie <M.B.Smillie@sms.ed.ac.uk> writes:
>
>> Ruby does have a lot going for it in this regard: first-order
>> functions,
>
> Did I miss something?

I probably should have said "higher-order functions" or "first-class  
functions".  I admit to a habitual disfluency when it comes to this  
distinction**.  Or am I missing what you think you're missing?

matthew smillie

** in my defence, they're very closely related, and first-order  
functions are a subset of higher-order functions, so I claim that I  
was technically correct (which is the best kind of correct).