Re: quotations

In article <9f5d42ff6471fb5bd1c209e39527b7cdf715546c@i2pn2.org>,
dxf  <dxforth@gmail.com> wrote:

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.
>

This remembers me of FORTRAN code long ago.

   print( sin(t*x))

was too hard to understand.

It is recommended to do:

   a = t*x
   b= sin(a)
   print(b)

See also my post about the dispatch table for lisp in this thread.

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