Re: silly question on closure

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Tom de Neef wrote:

> […] With a closure you can hide variables and restrict their access to
> predefined uses. The example of the counter, provided by Stefan, is such a
> case.

However, one should be aware that in addition to arbitrary execution order 
one is also sacrificing thread-safety this way the same as if the local 
variable was global: All calls to the returned function will use the same 
local variable of the returning outer function.

PointedEars
-- 
var bugRiddenCrashPronePieceOfJunk = (
    navigator.userAgent.indexOf('MSIE 5') != -1
    && navigator.userAgent.indexOf('Mac') != -1
)  // Plone, register_function.js:16

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silly question on closure justaguy <lichunshen84@gmail.com> - 2012-09-22 05:04 -0700
  Re: silly question on closure Stefan Weiss <krewecherl@gmail.com> - 2012-09-22 18:18 +0200
    Re: silly question on closure justaguy <lichunshen84@gmail.com> - 2012-09-22 18:41 -0700
    Re: silly question on closure Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2012-09-24 01:10 +0200
      Closures (was: silly question on closure) Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2012-09-24 13:14 +0200
      Re: silly question on closure Stefan Weiss <krewecherl@gmail.com> - 2012-09-27 05:04 +0200
        Re: silly question on closure Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2012-09-27 20:50 +0200
          Re: silly question on closure Stefan Weiss <krewecherl@gmail.com> - 2012-09-27 21:29 +0200
  Re: silly question on closure "Tom de Neef" <tdeneef@qolor.nl> - 2012-09-22 20:00 +0200
    Re: silly question on closure justaguy <lichunshen84@gmail.com> - 2012-09-22 18:42 -0700
      Re: silly question on closure justaguy <lichunshen84@gmail.com> - 2012-09-23 07:31 -0700
        Re: silly question on closure Stefan Weiss <krewecherl@gmail.com> - 2012-09-23 18:49 +0200
          Re: silly question on closure justaguy <lichunshen84@gmail.com> - 2012-09-23 13:33 -0700
          Re: silly question on closure justaguy <lichunshen84@gmail.com> - 2012-09-23 13:38 -0700
            Re: silly question on closure Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2012-09-24 20:49 +0200
    Re: silly question on closure Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2012-09-24 01:14 +0200
  Re: silly question on closure dann90038@gmail.com - 2012-09-23 15:37 -0700

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