Closures in leu of pointers?

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:)  Thank you guys for saying what I was biting my tongue about (thanks everybody for the help, BTW!).

This "python-think" stuff was starting to get on my nerves - but then it occurred to me that - although having many powerful features - it has so many weird restrictions that it requires a special way of thinking and problem solving.

I have to work with perl's object-orientation stuff again for awhile, in order to see if either has an advantage.