On Wed, 3 Jul 2002, Philip S Tellis wrote:
> On Tue, 2 Jul 2002, Sam Tregar wrote:
>
> > filter => {
> > sub => sub { $language_filter->(shift,
> > scalar $query->param("language")) },
> > format => 'scalar',
> > },
>
> heh. try doing that in java.
Perl is a good deal closer to reimplementing Lisp with a reasonable syntax
than Java is. The ability to dynamicly create closures is definitely a
benefit of that! Hopefully Perl 6 will get us even closer.
Can you tell I've been reading way too much Paul Graham lately?
-sam
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