On Sun, 24 Jul 2016 23:30:47 +0200 Didier Kryn <k...@in2p3.fr> wrote:
> Le 24/07/2016 22:37, Jaromil a écrit : > > nowadays the closures paradigm (basically fifo pipes of pointers to > > stateless functions) is used much more than all that mutex and > > semaphore old stuff. i.e. golang adopted closures since the > > beginning with great success. > > > > ciao > > Don't know what a closure is, although I heard of it long ago on > this list. According to Wikipedia, it is "a record containing a > function and its environment". Hi Didier, I've never encountered closures as described by Jaromil, but they're a pretty handy thing easily done in many languages, with Lua leading the list. Here's something that might help explain a little bit: http://troubleshooters.com/codecorn/lua/luaclosures.htm SteveT Steve Litt July 2016 featured book: Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist http://www.troubleshooters.com/techniques _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
