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deepsun

> If there's anything that is not an object, it's a function!

Why, functions have state -- their closure.

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Ancient wisdom: closures are a poor man's objects; objects are a poor man's closures.

https://people.csail.mit.edu/gregs/ll1-discuss-archive-html/...

closures and objects with a single invoke() method have been considered equivalent in many views for some time.

Exactly, that's why I disagree with parent's comment:

> If there's anything that is not an object, it's a function!

Functions aren't closures. To be a closure it needs to be a function paired with an environment. Functions do not inherently carry their environment with them.

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