Confused about closures and scoping rules

[Michele Simionato]

On Nov 6, 7:37 pm, "Chris Mellon" <arka... at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Nov 6, 2007 6:23 PM, Jean-Paul Calderone <exar... at divmod.com> wrote:
> > Lots of people ask about this.  The behavior you observed is the expected
> > (by the implementors, anyway) behavior.
>
> Are there languages where closures *don't* behave like this? A closure
> that used a copy of the state rather than the actual state itself
> doesn't seem as useful. For references sake, JavaScript (the only
> language that a) has closures and b) I have a handy way to test with)
> does the same thing.

Closures in Haskell's list comprehensions work as Fernando (and many
others would expect). See for instance this post:
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_frm/thread/d691240a5cfebcdf/63234494ebbca54e?hl=en&lnk=gst&q=simionato+haskell#63234494ebbca54e


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