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What are the drawbacks with lambda lifting for non-escaping closures?
I am considering to implementing Lambda lifting for non-escaping closures (and not support escaping closures, hence also ruling out partial application with closures). I understand that this can add ...
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How do languages with only reference counting deal with closures?
Reference counting works best if there are no cycles. But closures that allow access to every variable in the parent scope by default automatically create cycles.
There are obvious solutions like only ...
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Early binding, mutual recursion, closures. Can I have all three?
Take this Python snippet of two functions that are mutually recursive and form closures:
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