From: brk@...
Date: 2002-04-03T07:03:11+09:00
Subject: RE: seeking to understand...


	[Bryn Keller]  
	<snip>
> Am I correct to say performing lexical closure
> in Python is about equal to performing it in Java?
> 
> YS.
	[Bryn Keller]  

	No. It used to be more difficult, but now (2.2) it's pretty
straightforward:

	Python 2.2 (#28, Dec 21 2001, 12:21:22) [MSC 32 bit (Intel)] on
win32
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information.
	>>> def make_adder(num):
	...     def adder(num2):
	...             return num + num2
	...     return adder
	...
	>>> add_one = make_adder(1)
	>>> add_one(5)
	6
	>>>