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[Steven D'Aprano]

On Sun, 31 Jul 2005 21:03:36 -0700, Paul Rubin wrote:

> Steven D'Aprano <steve at REMOVEMEcyber.com.au> writes:
>> Most languages can create self-modifying code. That's not the
>> question. The question is whether developers should write
>> self-modifying code, not whether language designers should prohibit it.
> 
> There was no self-modifying code in that closure example.
> Self-modifying code means something entirely different.  

The example was a function that modified itself to do something different
from what it was doing. Calling it a "closure" is just jargon. As for
closure being "tried and true" in Lisp... well, there is a reason why Lisp
is a niche language, with very little if any use in the commercial world.


-- 
Steven.