The Importance of Terminology's Quality

[John W Kennedy]

David Combs wrote:
> passing
> *unnamed* functions as args (could Algol 60 also do something like that,
> via something it maybe termed a "thunk")

No, the "thunks" were necessary at the machine-language level to 
/implement/ ALGOL 60, but they could not be expressed /in/ ALGOL.

-- 
John W. Kennedy
  "The first effect of not believing in God is to believe in anything...."
   -- Emile Cammaerts, "The Laughing Prophet"