Misunderstanding about closures

[Alexander May]

Thanks everybody.  I now have a complete understanding of all the issues.
Alex

"Michele Simionato" <michele.simionato at poste.it> wrote in message
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> Alexander Schmolck <a.schmolck at gmx.net> wrote in message
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> > Not quite. In fact in the language that more or less started it all,
scheme,
> > the standard iteration construct 'do' does indeed introduce a *new
binding* on
> > each iteration.
> <snip>
> > Common Lisp OTOH doesn't -- like python:
> >
> <snip>
>
> A thoughtful discussion of Python/Scheme/Lisp closures and for loops
> was made by
> Jacek Generowicz in this thread:
>
>
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