Re: Naming FCRs

[Richard Stallman]

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  > > I think we should extend the functionality of closures by providing a
  > > way to access the bound variables in them.  Then we won't need to make
  > > Emacs Lisp more complicated with a new data type, because ordinary
  > > closures will do this job too.

  > That's exactly what fcr.el does.

I have not seen fcr.el -- would you please send me a copy?

However, if it does exactly what I described above, why do we need a
name other than "closures"?  Why do we need a new type of object?

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