Is there a way to change the closure of a python function?

[Jussi Piitulainen]

Steve D'Aprano writes:

> On Wed, 28 Sep 2016 08:03 pm, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:
>
>> On Wednesday, September 28, 2016 at 9:53:05 PM UTC+13, Gregory Ewing
>> wrote:
>>> Essentially you write the whole program in continuation-
>>> passing style, with a state object being passed down an
>>> infinite chain of function calls.
>> 
>> Procedural programming under another name...
>
> Only in the sense that procedural programming is unstructured programming
> under another name. What is a procedure call but a disguised GOSUB, and
> what is GOSUB but a pair of GOTOs?

Continuation-passing style is only GOTOs. Instead of returning to the
caller, procedures pass control to the continuation, together with the
values that the continuation is expecting from the procedure.

I guess you can think of it as a way to disguise a GOSUB.