Jeremy Hylton <jeremy@alum.mit.edu>: > Seriously, I don't see how acquistion addresses the same issues at > all. My proposal for nested scopes was actually an acquisition-like mechanism. The idea was to avoid unbreakable cycles by deferring the creation of a closure from when the function is defined to when it is used. Guido rejected my implementation for various good reasons. It could be modified to overcome most of those objections, however. Greg Ewing, Computer Science Dept, +--------------------------------------+ University of Canterbury, | A citizen of NewZealandCorp, a | Christchurch, New Zealand | wholly-owned subsidiary of USA Inc. | greg@cosc.canterbury.ac.nz +--------------------------------------+
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