Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > BTW, the fact that a closure refers to a variable itself rather to its > current value can be used to check the true attitude of languages with > respect to functional programming, by observing how they understand > their basic loops :-)
The thread "Midfunction Recursion"¹ from October 2002 sounds relevant here, exploring options for bindings in iteration. Footnotes: ¹ http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.lisp/browse_frm/thread/422226bb18e56cad/0590de10f975a059 -- Steven E. Harris -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
