Why we will use obj$func() often

[Mel Wilson]

In article <w8dic.28710$dZ1.11206 at fed1read04>,
"Mark Hahn" <mark at prothon.org> wrote:
>The benefits of closures are well known.  I'll give you the canonical
>example, but I'm sure textbooks can give you many more (by the way, Python
>cannot do this):
>
># tested example
>def getFunc():
>    counter = 0
>    def count():
>            &counter += 1
>            print &counter
>    return count
>
>c = getFunc()
>c()     # prints 1
>c()     # prints 2
>c()     # prints 3


It can, if you spell '&' differently:

def getfunc():
    def count (n=[0]):
        n[0] += 1
        print n[0]
    return count

c = getfunc()
c()
c()
c()


        Regards.    Mel.