From: Gavin Kistner <gavin@...>
Date: 2005-09-29T00:08:13+09:00
Subject: Re: creating independent lambdas in loops

On Sep 28, 2005, at 7:47 AM, Eric Mahurin wrote:
>> Completely true. If a variable of that name is already
>> defined it is
>> used (and no local variables are created).
>
> Does anyone else find this "feature" useful?

All the time! I would say that at least half the programs I write use  
this feature of the blocks-as-closures.