[#4766] Wiki — "Glen Stampoultzis" <trinexus@...>

21 messages 2000/09/04
[#4768] RE: Wiki — "NAKAMURA, Hiroshi" <nahi@...> 2000/09/04

Hi, Glen,

[#4783] Re: Wiki — Masatoshi SEKI <m_seki@...> 2000/09/04

[#4785] Re: Wiki — "NAKAMURA, Hiroshi" <nakahiro@...> 2000/09/05

Howdy,

[#4883] Re-binding a block — Dave Thomas <Dave@...>

16 messages 2000/09/12

[#4930] Perl 6 rumblings -- RFC 225 (v1) Data: Superpositions — Conrad Schneiker <schneik@...>

Hi,

11 messages 2000/09/15

[#4936] Ruby Book Eng. translation editor's questions — Jon Babcock <jon@...>

20 messages 2000/09/16

[#5045] Proposal: Add constants to Math — Robert Feldt <feldt@...>

15 messages 2000/09/21

[#5077] Crazy idea? infix method calls — hal9000@...

This is a generalization of the "in" operator idea which I

17 messages 2000/09/22

[#5157] Compile Problem with 1.6.1 — Scott Billings <aerogems@...>

When I try to compile Ruby 1.6.1, I get the following error:

15 messages 2000/09/27

[ruby-talk:4855] Re: closures

From: Stuart Zakon <zakons@...>
Date: 2000-09-11 17:40:01 UTC
List: ruby-talk #4855
In article <85256952.0066604A.00@d54mta01.raleigh.ibm.com>,
  schneik@us.ibm.com wrote:
>
>
> Hi,
>
> # "Stuart Zakon" wrote:
> # > Can somebody please explain what a closure is within the context
of
> # > Ruby? (Simple explanation, simple example).
> #
> # I too would be grateful for such an explanation. "Closure" has
become
> # trendy in recent years, but I'm humble enough (not really! ;-) to
> # admit I haven't a clue what it is. ;-}
>
> I'll leave the explanations to others, but it might be useful to know
that
> they sometimes come in handy for use in GUIs as callback functions for
> buttons and such.
>
In that sense, they are functionally equivalent to function objects in
Python and anonymous inner classes in Java? Why does the OO world treat
these so differently in each language?

--
Stuart Zakon
Objects by Design
http://www.objectsbydesign.com


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