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From: Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 5 Feb 2012 13:58:31 -0700
Subject: Re: Common LISP-style closures with Python
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On Sat, Feb 4, 2012 at 9:19 PM, Antti J Ylikoski <antti.ylikoski@tkk.fi> wrote:
>> I'm not sure how naughty this is, but the same thing can be done without
>> using
>> nonlocal by storing the local state as an attribute of the enclosed
>> function
>> object:
>>
>> ...
>
> Yes, I do know that, but then it would not be a closure :-)))))))))

Sure it is.  Where do you think it looks up the function object?

Cheers,
Ian