From: Fearless Fool <r@...>
Date: 2011-03-22T01:52:59+09:00
Subject: scope of assignments with lambda

This isn't a question -- it's just a comment that I find it awesome and
only slightly mysterious that a lambda can reference the variable it is
assigned to in its body, such as p here:

>> p = lambda {|n| puts "bing #{n}" ; p.call(n-1) if n > 0 }
>> p.call(5)
bing 5
bing 4
bing 3
bing 2
bing 1
bing 0
=> nil

I guess that's the power of a real lexical closure.  Very handy.

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