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What is the architectural use case for passing function names as strings? You could just pass the named function around imo and not lose IDE Code completion and all that.

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Right now you're correct, we could just pass the functions. In the future, however, we'd like to extend the language so that you can call `remove` with a regex to make it easier to remove "groups" of functions (so that, every time you add a new function of a particular "group", you don't have go back to every spot where you remove things of that group and add another line).

There are a few other things we need to fix before we get there though, chief among those being memory use

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