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Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2011 06:07:42 -0400
From: Dave Angel <davea@ieee.org>
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On 01/-10/-28163 02:59 PM, Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote:
> Dave Angel wrote:
>
>> On 01/-10/-28163 02:59 PM, Terry Reedy wrote:
>>> def makeadder(y)
>>>      def _add(x): return x+y
>>> add2 = makeadder(2)
>> A couple of typos in that code:
>>
>>
>> def makeaddr(y):
>>       def _add(x): return x+y
>>       return _add
> I agree about the `return' statement, but not about the factory name; this
> has nothing to do with addresses (addr).
>

The two changes that I made deliberately were adding the colon and 
adding the return statement.  I'm not sure how the name got changed;  
that was accidental.

DaveA