On Sun, 26 Apr 2009, Alan K. Stebbens wrote:
> A programming comparison on the web had this question:
>
> > The problem: Write a function foo that takes a number n and returns
> > a function that takes a number i, and returns n incremented by i.
>
> The concept of embedding context within a function definition is
> called a "closure". So, I guess I'm asking is if there is a
> "standard" way to accomplish closures in J?
> bar
> ┌─┬─┬───┐
> │3│:│7+y│
> └─┴─┴───┘
> bar 3
> 10
I think that your `bar' does not satisfy the requirement. When it is
called again, it should add 10 (not 7) to the number. This closure
had been discussed on this list and appeared in jwiki, iirc.
J is not good in this problem or this is not a good problem for J. :-)
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