Chad Perrin wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 02, 2006 at 08:40:14AM +0900, Hal Fulton wrote:
> 
>>I think "lexically" might be the key word there. Isn't it true
>>that Perl has only lexical closures, not "real" closures?
> 
> 
> Lexical closures *are* "real" closures.  The term "closure" as it is
> being bandied about is an abbreviation for "lexical closure".
> 

I can't disagree with you. I have a friend, a very knowledgeable
person, who made a distinction there. Besides being a little
smarter than I am, he is a Perl programmer, which I am not.

I'll ask him about it sometime.


Hal