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Re: Common LISP-style closures with Python

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From Devin Jeanpierre <jeanpierreda@gmail.com>
Date 2012-02-04 17:52 -0500
Subject Re: Common LISP-style closures with Python
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
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On Sat, Feb 4, 2012 at 5:58 AM, Arnaud Delobelle <arnodel@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

"No such feature"? What's that nonlocal thing then? The above function
could not be written that way in Python 2.

Of course maybe we want to put this feature in another category, but
anyway, the function couldn't be written in some languages, even
though they have closures.

-- Devin

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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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