Re: Y Store /Closures

[eli rosenberg <address@hidden>]

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
>