Re: Closures - do you understand them well?

[Emanuel Berg]

Michael Heerdegen wrote:

>>>> The actual structure is not interesting for programming
>>>> any more.
>>>
>>> Are we talking lexical let-closures? Why not?
>>
>> Unless I still misunderstand your question: Lisp is
>> a high-level language, not Assembler, so like you don't
>> modify the bytes of byte-code functions by hand, you also
>> don't edit the internal representation of closures.
>
> Maybe I should mention oclosures where you can access
> variables with accessor functions "from the outside".
> But this is also a high-level thing, the internal structure
> of oclosures is not important and an implementation like for
> "normal" function values.

Open closures BTW, isn't that a contradiction in terms,
even? :)

Smells too much OO but maybe they were there before the OO
paradigm ...

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