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Re^4: Functional Programming & method rewritingby revdiablo (Prior) |
on Oct 29, 2004 at 19:07 UTC ( [id://403874]=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
That's true, but if you used that as the definition of "closure", then every subroutine that is in a lexical environment is a closure. That makes the term practically useless. I think it's more useful to consider a closure to be a subroutine that closes around its lexical environment, and uses it to maintain state between invocations. It may not be as technically accurate, but it captures the meaning I think is most common, and definitely more useful.
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