Re: a brief introduction to "closures" for "uneducated" C hackers

[Matthias Felleisen <matthias@cs.rice.edu>]

yes, it did. but you the grammar prevented you from passing a function out
of its scope. -- Matthias

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   Matthias Felleisen wrote:
   > 
   [snip good explanation of lexical closure]
   > 
   >     LISP, and for a long time Smalltalk, got this all wrong.
   > 
   >     In C, you can't define functions in a lexically nested position. So the
   >     problem didn't come up.
   > 

   I have a vague recollection that Pascal allowed nested functions-- but I
   don't recall how or if it dealt with this.  Does anyone here know?

   Cheers,
   John

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