On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 09:34:23AM -0800, Larry Wall wrote: > The purpose of a state variable is to keep state across multiple calls > to the same scope, so I'd say the proper semantics on closures is > to treat the generation of a closure as a new block with new state properties. > The most useful initialization semantics appear to be "just in time", > that is, on first actual call to the generated closure. START time > in my previous message, though I'm still unhappy with that name. > FIRST would be better, but that's taken (this week).
ENTER? Possibly with a corresponding LEAVE? -Scott -- Jonathan Scott Duff [EMAIL PROTECTED]
