Re: How to comprehend "in Lua, all functions are anonymous. Like any other value, they do not have names. " at a deeper level?

[Matěj Cepl <mcepl@...>]

孙世龙 sunshilong píše v Út 13. 10. 2020 v 09:38 +0800:
> How to comprehend "in Lua, all functions are anonymous. Like any other
> value, they do not have names. " at a deeper level?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-class_function

The same goes for all functional languages, but it is also the 
saving grace for JavaScript, and it is present (although not 
that prominent) in Python. For most classical (C/C++, Java, 
Pascal, etc.) functions are completely different animals from 
values which are manipulated inside of them. For these modern 
languages, functions are just same objects as integers.

Matěj

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