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From: "Mike Silva" <mjsilva@jps.net>
Subject: Re: pointers & OOP
Date: 1999/05/04
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Robert Dewar wrote in message <7gn7gr$fr5$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>...

>>Yes, closures need pointers, but we don't need closures for many kinds
>>of OO programming!

I'm going to demonstrate my ignorance here (but it gets easier the more I do
it...).  I've seen the term "closures" mentioned often in the context of
programming / languages, but I don't know what it means (I started life as a
hardware engineer...).  Anybody have an answer, or a direction to look?
Thanks.

Mike