2014-04-17 6:57 GMT-07:00 Sebastian Sastre <sebastian@flowingconcept.com>:

On Apr 17, 2014, at 10:35 AM, Alexandre Bergel <alexandre.bergel@me.com> wrote:

the whole community of programming language call a closure a closure. Calling a block what is actually a closure��

javascript is teaching every day to thousands what a real Closure is every day, so yeah that would be probably better


Javascript closures are different from Smalltalk BlockClosure, they do not support non local return. This extra feature allows smalltalk Closures to be upgraded from just Closure to BlockClosure to avoid any confusion with javascript closures (or people would think they are the same).