Express What, not How.

Ken Shan ken at digitas.harvard.edu
Fri Oct 17 18:14:55 EDT 2003


Raffael Cavallaro <raffaelcavallaro at junk.mail.me.not.mac.com> wrote in article <raffaelcavallaro-20C5F3.01461917102003 at netnews.attbi.com> in comp.lang.functional:
> I think you miss the point - "quickly" is itself a _name_ for an 
> abstract modifier. If this is the analog of a higher order function, it 
> is a _named_ higher order function, not an anonymous one.

In what sense are "lambda" and "apply" not names?

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