[Chicago-talk] The "other" closure

[Randal L. Schwartz]

>>>>> "Steven" == Steven Lembark <lembark at wrkhors.com> writes:

>> Voila! A closure.

Steven> This is a really nice example of a private static
Steven> variable, but it is not a closure.

Wrong.  It's a closure.  It's a coderef that latches on to its
lexical referents, even when they go out of scope.

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