Tim Peters tim_one at email.msn.com
Mon Jan 24 19:30:37 EST 2000

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[posted & mailed]

[Tim]
> ... (despite that it *looks* nothing like Lisp, a REBOL
> "block" is a lexical closure, and the semantics are
> virtually identical to Scheme's)

[Joe Marshall]
> REBOL abandoned lexical closures in version 2.0, so the
> semantics have become quite different from Scheme's.

I eagerly yield to Joe on all matters REBOL -- he was the primary
implementer of the version I used most.  So, Joe, should the original
questioner learn Python or REBOL?

c.l.py-is-a-low-pressure-group<wink>-ly y'rs  - tim

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