From: Christian Neukirchen <chneukirchen@...>
Date: 2006-06-18T03:25:48+09:00
Subject: Re: self-similarity or closure in ruby

uncutstone wu <uncutstone@sina.com> writes:

> It seems
>    In lisp, everything is expression
>    In smalltalk, everything is object
>    In Ruby,
>        everything is an expression
>        everything is an object
>
> This kind of characteristic is called closure.
> It is also a kind of self-similarity.

In Common Lisp, everything is an object too.
In Smalltalk, everything is an expression too (but you need ^ to return values).

> uncutstone
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