Sep 6, 2008 · It's just that in Scheme variables are bound to mutable cells whereas in ML variables are bound to immutable cell. If you want mutation in ML, ...

Jan 29, 2007 · We have an argument on the Wikipedia article on closure on whether C# 2.0 and ECMAScript closures are "fully featured" closures or not.

Dec 29, 2013 · So I've been working on a new language for a while and the topic of how to implement closures came up. I have seen closures usually ...

Aug 11, 2008 · No useful programs can be written without effects, but effects turn bad when they are observable from within the program itself. Instead we ...

Mar 15, 2008 · Closure cost is an implementation trade-off. A language that implements closures has to trade off between the cost of *creating* a closure ...

Oct 29, 2018 · As a result, this kind of function is often introduced as part of the closure-conversion pass of a compiler in functional programming languages, ...

Nov 7, 2010 · Closure pointers are the result of run-time allocation. They are not compile-time pointers. In fact, they are not constants at all.

Oct 4, 2015 · This paper presents a set of optimizations that improve upon the flat-closure model along with an algorithm that implements them, and it shows ...

A closure is a function together with an environment in which its body is to be evaluted. In a lexically-scoped language, a function expression (either named or ...

Feb 28, 2012 · C has first class functions already, they're formally closures .. already. What's missing is the ability to nest them and form a closure ...