Re: [stack] sweetening concatenative syntax

Manfred Von Thun scripsit:

> 4: (lots more)]  So a quotation in Joy is NOT a function, it is a program
> to compute a function.

Scheme makes essentially the same distinction between a procedure (a
piece of Scheme code), a closure (a run-time object binding a procedure
to a lexical environment), and a function (a mathematical relation).
OTOH, the closely related Common Lisp uses "function" for all three.

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