On Saturday 25 October 2003 20:05, David Eppstein wrote: ...
One person here brought up (maybe David Eppstein) that they used this approach for coding up extensive algorithms that are functional in nature but have a lot of state referenced *during* the computation. ... refactoring in general, but you convinced me that using an object to represent shared state explicitly rather than doing it implicitly by nested function scoping can be a good idea.
Great testimony, David -- thanks!!! So, maybe, rather than going out of our way to facilitate coding very large and complicated closures, it might be better to keep focusing on _simple_, small closures as the intended, designed-for use case, and convince users of complicated closures that refactoring, as David has done, into OO terms, can indeed be preferable. Alex