Re^3: Attempting to use $_ in "sub" inside "map"

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In languages without lexically scoped variables or something approximating them, there's not really any such thing as a closure. You can still have first-class functions (i.e. coderefs); they just have no need to close over anything.

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Re^4: Attempting to use $_ in "sub" inside "map" by LanX (Saint) on May 10, 2021 at 14:40 UTC
> first-class functions (i.e. coderefs) Doesn't equal closures. OK PHP is using that terminology, but it's wrong ... ... anyway who's using PHP anymore ;-) > In languages without lexically scoped variables or something approximating them do you have an example for such a language with functions as first class objects? Cheers Rolf _{(addicted to the Perl Programming Language :) Wikisyntax for the Monastery}	[reply]

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Re^4: Attempting to use $_ in "sub" inside "map"
by LanX (Saint) on May 10, 2021 at 14:40 UTC

> first-class functions (i.e. coderefs)

Doesn't equal closures. OK PHP is using that terminology, but it's wrong ...

... anyway who's using PHP anymore ;-)

> In languages without lexically scoped variables or something approximating them

do you have an example for such a language with functions as first class objects?

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