From: Chad Perrin <perrin@...>
Date: 2006-07-27T09:03:30+09:00
Subject: Re: For performance, write it in C

On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 08:53:18AM +0900, Keith Gaughan wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 08:33:31AM +0900, Chad Perrin wrote:
> > 
> > Is it just me, or are there no proper closures in that example code?
> 
> No, Chad. There's closures in there. What you're not seeing is
> anonymous functions, but closures are not the same as anonymous
> functions.

Maybe I'm missing something critical about Python, but I don't see the
persistent code construct being passed from the function when its
lexical scope (assuming it's truly lexical, which it might not be in
this case) closes.  It's only a closure if there's something persistent
that was "closed" by the scope closing.

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