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@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ others from doing so.
 Patches to this document are welcome.
 
 Really important items
+1 **    working closures
 1 **    array/hash vivification (pmichaud, masak, jnthn)
 1 **    REPL remembers the variable from the last line (pmichaud, jnthn)
 1 **    operator overloading -- infix:, prefix:, postfix: (almost there, problems with pre-comp)