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On 31/1/07 22:49, in article wcchcu6zu9d.fsf@shell01.TheWorld.com, "Robert A
Duff" <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com> wrote:

> Yes, I saw part of that discussion.  Yes, "closure" really just means
> "procedure".  We use "closure" (or "lexical closure") to emphasize the
> fact that a "procedure" includes some environmental information in
> addition to just the code.
> 
> "Closure" also emphasizes that there's something interesting about that
> environment -- namely, that NESTED procedures may be passed around the
> place (whether inward only, or both inward and outward).
...
> Pascal programmers just call them "procedural parameters".

Thread tie!

I invented the "procedural/functional parameter" terminology for
the BSI/ISO standard because we kept getting confused in committee
about what was meant when we spoke of "procedure parameters".
(Were "procedure parameters" the parameters OF procedures
or those that WERE procedures?)

-- 
Bill Findlay
<surname><forename> chez blueyonder.co.uk