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From: Barry Margolin <barmar@bbnplanet.com>
Subject: Re: nested functions
Date: 1998/04/28
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In article <35459993.3BC581B0@physik.tu-muenchen.de>,
Christopher Eltschka  <celtschk@physik.tu-muenchen.de> wrote:
>Closures might be useful, but have too complicated interaction
>with the C++ object model (I guess they would work well with the
>Java object model).

Which probably explains why closures are generally only found in languages
with garbage collection.

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