Re: Back & Forth - Co-routines

Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> writes:

It may not be obvious, but
closures are sort of the same thing as OOP, just viewed from a different
angle.

At least that's what the fans of languages claim that have only one or
the other.  And Forth has had ;CODE and DOES> very early on, and those
who don't have objects or closures claim that DOES> is sort of the
same as OOP and closures, just viewed from a different angle.

Yet we found it fruitful to add object-oriented extensions in various
Forth systems, and we find it fruitful to add closures in Gforth.

- anton
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