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== Anonymous functions == | == Anonymous functions == | ||
In the 1990s array language designers began experimenting with forms that allowed a function to be created without ever giving it a name, often influenced by [[wikipedia:Lisp (programming language)|Lisp]]'s lambda expressions. Such anonymous forms appeared in several languages, including an early but less influential form in [[NARS]]: | In the 1990s array language designers began experimenting with forms that allowed a function to be created without ever giving it a name, often influenced by [[wikipedia:Lisp (programming language)|Lisp]]'s lambda expressions. Such anonymous forms appeared in several languages, including an early but less influential form in [[NARS]]: | ||