Re: [External] : Re: Closures - do you understand them well?

[Emanuel Berg]

Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor wrote:

> `iterate` explicitly defines those vars to use a single
> binding over the whole iteration (I suspect the same holds
> for `loop` as well, actually). IOW it's very fundamentally
> "imperative", where iteration variables are defined to be
> "uninitialized" at the beginning at are updated by
> side-effect during the course of the iteration. [ I tend to
> cringe at the idea of uninitialized variables. ]

Iteration meaning a for loop is imperative, a traversal of
a data structure is pretty functional IMO ... set, aggregate,
map, higher-order ...

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