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Re:Introducing Closure Tools by distortion on Friday November 06, 2009 @08:35AM (#925925)
Of course Haskell has closures, there's always a scope to close over:

f x = (\y -> x + y)

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Re:Introducing Closure Tools by blasdel on Friday November 06, 2009 @04:18PM (#926952)
That's still just high-level lexical sugar - the 'scope' is not captured, just rewritten. After desugaring, there is no scope left, even lexically.

It's completely different from a 'closure' in a language that has variables.

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