[self-interest] blocks and closures

[James McCartney]

It depends on the Smalltalk.
A full closure can be returned from a function and still refer to that 
function's variables. Self disallows this, as do some Smalltalks I 
beleive. If you support this feature you can no longer put all your 
local variables on the stack, because references to them may outlive 
the function activation in which they were created.

On Wednesday, April 9, 2003, at 01:28 PM, Steve Dekorte wrote:

> Is there any difference between a Self/Smalltalk block and a LISP
> closure?
>
> Cheers,
> Steve
>
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