Re: I thought this was the one that worked?

On Tue, Aug 01, 2006 at 12:47:50PM +0900, Logan Capaldo wrote:
On Jul 31, 2006, at 11:26 PM, Chad Perrin wrote:

Closure
A "closure" is an expression (typically a function) that can
have
free variables together with an environment that binds those
variables (that "closes" the expression).


In ruby this environment always exists for a block regardless of the
presence of free variables, since the declaration of the variables
that are free in the block can be added after (in time) the creation
of the closure.

I think that depends on what you mean by "creation of the closure" in
this case. Are you talking about the code used to create it, or the
assignment of the return value of the closure's enclosing scope to a
variable?

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