From: Hal Fulton <hal9000@...>
Date: 2006-08-02T08:45:01+09:00
Subject: Re: I thought this was the one that worked?

Chad Perrin wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 01, 2006 at 06:50:09PM +0900, Just Another Victim of the Ambient Morality wrote:
> 
>>    This seriously sounds like an "if a tree falls in the forest, does it 
>>make a sound?" kind of situation.  In other words, it's a semantic 
>>argument...
> 
> 
> Okay, let's translate that question into the terms we're actually
> discussing.
> 
>   1. If a tree falls in the forest, and there's no one around to hear
>   it, does it still make a sound?
> 
>   2. If a lambda has the ability to access its context, but there isn't
>   any context to access, is it still a closure?

But there's always context. Even an empty block  { }
occurring somewhere in a real program has context.


Hal