>>>>> "Amos" == Amos  <aaamos at gmail.com> writes:

>> > Have you got an example handy?
>> 
>> http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/331

Amos> Interesting. The example on that page works just fine in VW (which is
Amos> what I'm used to), but not in Squeak. So... probably a dumb question,
Amos> but are some Squeakers seriously willing to live with that...?

But this works fine as well in modern VMs:

|blocks|
blocks := (1 to: 10) collect: [:each | [each] fixTemps].
blocks first value. 

The point is that BlockContext>>#fixTemps is (a) a hack (doesn't work EVERY
time) and (b) expensive, so it isn't sent every time, even though that
probably wouldn't hurt.

For now, it's up to you to know when you have a block that might need closure
treatment, which is simple enough to determine by humans: do you need the
values of externally defined temps to be cloned and disconnected from the
surrounding code?  In this case, the answer was "yes", because we wanted each
block to have its own "each" temp.

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