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		Blikkentrekker on Jan 20, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Lispsyntax.jl: A Clojure-like Lisp syntax for juli... Virtually every modern language has lexical closures; dynamic typing is certainly not unique; and not everything is an expression that returns values at all.

adgjlsfhk1 on Jan 23, 2021 [–]

That last point is just wrong. Sometimes the return value is `nothing`, but that's still very much a return value.

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