Bruno Desthuilliers wrote: >> You skipped the first and most important sentence:
> "In programming languages, a closure is a function that refers to free > variables in its lexical context." > > IOW, a closure is a function that carry it's own environment. in contrast to functions that don't know what environment they belong to, you mean ? can you identify such a construct in Python ? </F> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
