From: Jim Weirich <jweirich@...>
Date: 2002-07-31T10:10:15+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby and Ocaml - my two favorite languages

>>>>> "mikkelfj" == mikkelfj-anti-spam  <MikkelFJ> writes:

    mikkelfj> Finally, Ruby cannot too soon get better closure
    mikkelfj> integration as first class values and partial evaluation
    mikkelfj> support. This is an absolute killer feature of
    mikkelfj> OCaml. Most of what Ruby does great is thanks to its use
    mikkelfj> of closures and most of what Ocaml does better is thanks
    mikkelfj> to its improved use of closures.

I'm curious.  Could you give an example of this?

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