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Re:Why We Use OCaml by dllthomas on Wednesday July 16, 2014 @04:27PM (#8044341)
"you can, but it's sufficiently clunky that it simply doesn't feel like a natural thing to do in the language."

It does to me, but I've done enough functional programming that I easily reach for concepts from that space.

"good language design is a lot more about the things it makes easy and natural than the things it makes possible."

Of course. I don't know where you got the idea I was saying closures aren't a good thing to have language support for. I said precisely the opposite.

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