Re: Y Store /Closures

[Michael Vanier <address@hidden>]

Maybe because they didn't understand either how to implement them or why
they're important?  ;-)

Only half joking...

Mike

> From: eli rosenberg <eli.rosenberg@verizon.net>
> Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2003 10:58:41 -0600
> 
> Hi,
> In accordance with Greenspun's 10th rule, why
> didn't they add closures to their run time environment?
> Any number of books cover implementations of 
> closures and nested scoping (as in Pascal)...
> 
> 
> > 
> > From: Paul Graham <pg@archub.org>
> > Date: 2003/02/25 Tue AM 07:19:36 CST
> > To: mvanier@cs.caltech.edu
> > CC: ll1-discuss@ai.mit.edu
> > Subject: Re: Y Store now C++
> 
> > 
> > BTW, I should add that most Y Store users still probably
> > use the Lisp version at this point.  They're doing a 
> > gradual rollout, and you have to explicitly choose to
> > "upgrade" to the new version.  The feature they had to take
> > out because of closures is actually a fairly important one,
> > so I suspect many users never will upgrade.  
> > 
> > --pg
> > 
>