Re: Closures versus objects

On 2/15/07, Robbert Haarman <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 11:13:36AM -0800, Mike Newhall wrote:
> >       As a perhaps separate thought, what are closures useful for?
>
> Well, really, for passing to higher order functions. Someone already
> mentioned mapcar, but I would like to make specific mention of
> callbacks, as well.

Callbacks are a particular case of continuation-passing-style.  While
one doesn't
usually chain callbacks within callbacks within callbacks, there is no reason
that one couldn't (although in a language with a crappy type system it becomes
unweildy really quick).

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~jrm