On Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 03:49:21PM -0500, Dan Sugalski wrote: > At 10:14 AM -0500 3/14/03, Andrew Pimlott wrote: > > > >A6 says that, as in Perl 5, only anonymous subs are closures. I've > >always thought of the fact that Perl 5 named subs are not closures > >as a bug kept for compatibility. > > Well... there's always the issue that closures are done by > instantiating the sub at runtime, while named subs are instantiated > at compile time, which causes some difficulties. (As the enclosing > sub's lexicals instantiate at runtime, thus giving the contained sub > nothing to close over) > > Now, if the named lexically scoped sub actually got re-instantiated > every time, *that* would be different.
YES. That's what we want. That is how Scheme and Common Lisp work. That would make for cleaner code. -- John Tobey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> \____^-^ /\ /\ _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
