On Sunday, June 22, 2003, at 01:30 AM, Michael Vanier wrote: > The big difference is that functions have no notion of inheritance, > whereas > objects generally do. Inheritance is just a scoping rule. LISP has lexical scoping, no? Is this not a form of inheritance from another context? Cheers, Steve Io, a small language: http://www.iolanguage.com/