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		knome 35 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: OOP is shifting between domains, not disappearing closures and objects with a single invoke() method have been considered equivalent in many views for some time.

deepsun 35 days ago [–]

Exactly, that's why I disagree with parent's comment:

> If there's anything that is not an object, it's a function!

Jtsummers 34 days ago | [–]

Functions aren't closures. To be a closure it needs to be a function paired with an environment. Functions do not inherently carry their environment with them.

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