That might prove difficult considering how much of the language is
*defined* in outer scopes. (Including, er, the basic grammar.)

On Fri, Dec 8, 2017 at 3:25 PM, Andy Bach <[email protected]> wrote:

> I ran into this article
> https://medium.com/@kasperpeulen/an-interesting-
> programming-feature-that-no-language-has-except-php-4de22f9e3964
>
> The feature allows [you] to write *self invoked anonymous functions that
> don’t let any scope from the outer function leak in*. The syntax he
> proposes involves the *use* keyword, followed by explicit parameters,
> which is followed by a block that can use those parameters and return a
> value.
>
> But I don't quite (er, okay, at all) understand what the point is.  Just
> curious if P6 has anything along this sort thing.
>
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