From: Ryan Davis <ryand-ruby@...>
Date: 2005-10-17T07:38:34+09:00
Subject: Re: Closures and Perl [was: Help! define_method leaking procs...]


On Oct 16, 2005, at 7:53 AM, Eric Mahurin wrote:

> [...] I think perl is where closures started. [...]

To quote http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html :

"Lexical closures, introduced by Lisp in the early 1970s, are now,  
just barely, on the radar screen."