Re: quotations

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.