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Re: Common LISP-style closures with Python

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Date	Sat, 4 Feb 2012 10:58:49 +0000
Subject	Re: Common LISP-style closures with Python
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On 4 February 2012 10:14, Antti J Ylikoski <antti.ylikoski@tkk.fi> wrote:
> On 4.2.2012 4:47, Chris Rebert wrote:
>> Out of curiosity, what would be non-Common-Lisp-style closures?
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Chris
>
>
> I understand that a "closure" is something which is typical of functional
> programming languages.  -- Scheme-style closures, for example.
>
> I don't know Haskell, ML etc. but I do suspect that we could create closures
> in those languages as well.  Maybe someone more expert than me can help?

I think what Chris asking is: what is the feature of Common-Lisp
closures that Python closures share but other languages don't?

I think what he is implying is that there is no such feature.  Python
closures are no more "Common-Lisp-style" than they are "Scheme-style"
or "Smalltalk-like" or any other language-like.

-- 
Arnaud

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Common LISP-style closures with Python Antti J Ylikoski <antti.ylikoski@tkk.fi> - 2012-02-04 02:27 +0200
  Re: Common LISP-style closures with Python Chris Rebert <clp2@rebertia.com> - 2012-02-03 18:47 -0800
    Re: Common LISP-style closures with Python Antti J Ylikoski <antti.ylikoski@tkk.fi> - 2012-02-04 12:14 +0200
      Re: Common LISP-style closures with Python Antti J Ylikoski <antti.ylikoski@tkk.fi> - 2012-02-04 12:23 +0200
      Re: Common LISP-style closures with Python Arnaud Delobelle <arnodel@gmail.com> - 2012-02-04 10:58 +0000
        Re: Common LISP-style closures with Python Antti J Ylikoski <antti.ylikoski@tkk.fi> - 2012-02-04 15:09 +0200
          Re: Common LISP-style closures with Python Tomasz Rola <rtomek@ceti.pl> - 2012-02-04 18:42 +0100
      Re: Common LISP-style closures with Python Devin Jeanpierre <jeanpierreda@gmail.com> - 2012-02-04 17:52 -0500
  Re: Common LISP-style closures with Python John O'Hagan <research@johnohagan.com> - 2012-02-05 12:31 +1100
    Re: Common LISP-style closures with Python Antti J Ylikoski <antti.ylikoski@tkk.fi> - 2012-02-05 06:19 +0200
      Re: Common LISP-style closures with Python Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2012-02-05 13:58 -0700
        Re: Common LISP-style closures with Python Antti J Ylikoski <antti.ylikoski@tkk.fi> - 2012-02-06 07:55 +0200
  Re: Common LISP-style closures with Python Rick Johnson <rantingrickjohnson@gmail.com> - 2012-02-05 15:29 -0800
  Re: Common LISP-style closures with Python John Nagle <nagle@animats.com> - 2012-02-09 22:26 -0800
  Re: Common LISP-style closures with Python 88888 Dihedral <dihedral88888@googlemail.com> - 2012-02-09 23:55 -0800

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