Closures in leu of pointers?

[Ian Kelly]

On Sat, Jun 29, 2013 at 2:53 PM, Terry Reedy <tjreedy at udel.edu> wrote:
> # The alternative for either program or people is a 1-pass + backtracking
> process where all understandings are kept provisional until the end of the
> body and revised as required. 2 passes are simpler.

Or simply an explicit declaration of scope at the beginning of the
function definition.