Abandoned

Since infogami has been abandoned by its creators, I’m out too. Back to web.fisher.cx for me. Everything that was here is there.

Robert Fisher

Just thinking out loud

Kinds of procedures

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  • Nested: A procedure declared/defined within the scope of another procedure.
  • Open/closed: A closure is a type of procedure that captures its environment. EcmaScript & Scheme have closures. The distinction only makes sense if you have nested procedures?
  • First-class: If a procedure can be assigned to a variable, passed as an argument, returned, & applied indirectly; it is a first-class procedure. C, EcmaScript, & Scheme have first-class procedures.
  • Anonymous: A first-class procedure that doesn't need to be given a name. EcmaScript & Scheme have anonymous procedures.
  • Higher-order: Procedures that take other procedures as arguments or return procedures.

Downward funargs is being able to pass a procedure as a parameter? Upwards funargs is being able to return a procedure?