On 12 Sep., 21:32, clay <[email protected]> wrote: > A closure is when you define a function that "closes" over the local > environment from which the new function is defined and can access > local variables of that defining scope. Not just local variables, anything denotable from the enclosing scope, such as the method equals(Object), which happens to have a different meaning inside the "closure" than outside. This is a contradiction of your very definition ("a closure is a function which closes over the [lexically enclosing] environment") and thus disproves your hypothesis. q.e.d.
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