Re: Closures versus objects

On 2/16/07, Steve Dekorte <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On 15 Feb 2007, at 11:13 am, Mike Newhall wrote:
> > Closures clearly can be used to make object-like things, and
> > objects can be used to make closure-like things.  Is one
> > demonstrably "better" than the other, in a theoretic or practical
> > sense, or both?
>
> The big difference for me is purity - a pure object system has
> consistent semantics while a system based on first-class functions
> ends up having both functions and object-like-things built with
> functions. And that non-pure dynamic object code has type
> dependencies, which are at odds with code reuse and flexibility.

I don't understand this argument.

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~jrm