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> First-class functions - great.

The author magnificently understates how useful closures can be.

Besides this, the author has posted a single complaint about the language (one that I don't find particularly important) and then seems to act as though the language is completely unusable.




> The author magnificently understates how useful closures can be.

I didn't see a reference to closures in the article.

I know you probably know this but first class functions aren't closures.

The wikipedia article for them doesn't even mention closures: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-class_function


This is a post about JavaScript as a whole, and so I can only hope he meant "first class functions and closures". If he didn't, well that would be even more worrying.




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