On 18 February 2013 04:11, Raul Miller <[email protected]> wrote: > Here, my issue was that you were indicating that the text was invalid. > Since you are now expressing no interest in making a consistent, > valid rephrasing of that text, I will drop it.
I did refer you, more than once, and in more than one way, to what real functions in real functional programming language are. I am not necessarily saying the wikipedia sentence that you quoted is invalid. It is, however, a summarizing introductory statement that describes an ideal rather than reality. > Excellent. Please provide a clear example of this difference. > Or did you mean that there was a syntactic difference in some > languages? That is a non-issue, from my point of view - that's like > saying 1+1 is different from 2 because we use different characters. If elephants can be obtained from snakes by means of syntactic sugar, then yes, closures and currying are the same thing. > I think that it's relevant since your original post in this thread > http://jsoftware.com/pipermail/programming/2013-February/031561.html > opened by claiming that a page discussing Graham's challenge was > false. That the said page discusses Graham's challenge is irrelevant, too, because I didn't discuss it – my only concern was what that page said of closures, precisely because that statement was rather general. And if any meaning at all can be ascribed to the phrase 'claiming that a page discussing Graham's challenge was false', then this phrase is blatantly untruthful to what I actually said. > Well, not so much "editing" text but using additional text Adding, removing, changing, shuffling – it's all the same editing. Which, considering the detrimental effect on the original program, is indistinguishable from erasing and writing anew. And to consider this, on the one hand, and a certain property of a programming language, on the other, 'similar' is sheer nonsense. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
