Closures (Slideshow)¶

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Wikipedia
“A record storing a function together with an environment”
- That is pretty much it!
Dates back to early functional languages
- LISP
- Scheme

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Also available in modern languages
- Javascript
- C++: explicit capturing in lambdas
- C#
Definitely not unique to Python
- Although Wikipedia start out with Python examples