Proper closures (was Re: nil in SuspendedDelays???)

Marcus Denker denker at iam.unibe.ch
Mon Jan 23 15:35:12 UTC 2006


On 23.01.2006, at 16:06, Cees De Groot wrote:

> On 1/23/06, Dave Mason <dmason at sarg.ryerson.ca> wrote:
>> Is this just Squeak?
>
> There are Smalltalks that have real closures. But I can't give an
> exhaustive list so I cannot answer this in the positive.
>
>> to fix this in Squeak?
>>
> Yup, in 3.9a it already has been fixed IIRC.
>

More like one step towards it.... you can install an optional
compiler from SqueakMap to have full closures... so there
will be runtime support in 3.9, but you need to install
the additional compiler package to make use of them.

     Marcus



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