Would it be correct to say that Smalltalk blocks are analogous to Lisp's
lambda expressions, and that they act like Scheme blocks (lexical scoping)
as opposed to Emacs Lisp blocks (dynamic scoping)?

I believe the answer is yes based on my reading and playing around in
Squeak, but I wanted to check to see if there was a subtlety I was
missing.

I was mentally brainstorming today something like a "Smalltalk for
Schemers" tutorial - trying to reconcile the "oo programming rules" with
the "functional programming rules" mindsets.

I then got the twisted idea to try writing the Y-combinator using blocks.

Yes. I am a geek.

- Aaron

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