RE: a brief introduction to "closures" for "uneducated" C hackers

["Paul A. Steckler" <steck@cs.rice.edu>]

>For the record, you don't need the closure implementation technique to
>include this form of procedure in your language. You can do it on a 
>plain stack -- Matthias

Actually, it's not a plain stack -- it's a stack with "static chains".
If you squint hard, you have closures with the stack as the environment.

But we're getting way off-topic here.

-- Paul

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