Talk:Closure (computer programming)

In perl at least, a closure doesn't have to be a function definition. It's more or less anything between a pair of braces, that serves as it's own variable scope. In Damian Conway's Object Oriented Perl, I believe he uses closures to implement the private variables of an object, so it might be misleading to say that the closure itself is an object or acts like one. In any case, something needs to be said about scope here. Wesley