On Wed, 14 Nov 2001 12:05:44 +0000, Keith Wansbrough wrote:

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 >Yeap, that's exactly what I thought (I think - what exactly is a 'closure'?

  :) I'll try to tackle this one. I have always had trouble understanding this concept, and I haven't been able to find a good definition or description on the web. It's always assumed you know what's being talked about, for some reason.

Please submit your explanation to FOLDOC or the Haskell Wiki (or both):

 http://wombat.doc.ic.ac.uk/foldoc/index.html  http://haskell.org/wiki/wiki

Otherwise your carefully-crafted explanation will end up lost deep in a mail archive somewhere and never be seen.

:) I'll be happy to. I just don't know how accurate my explanation was. I do not claim to know what a closure is. Never read a single definition of it. This whole explanation is, at best, an educated guess built from all the contexts where I've heard it mentioned. I'll wait for some confirmation from somebody who knows.

Thanks!

No problem. There's nothing like trying to explain something to be able to understand it more fully :) Salutaciones, JCAB email: jcab@roningames.com ICQ: 101728263 The Rumblings are back: http://www.JCABs-Rumblings.com