Re: [Vala] The state of closures

[Luca Bruno <lethalman88 gmail com>]

On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 05:19:22PM +0100, Sam Liddicott wrote:
> yes.. it's been a few years since I piped up.
>
> Part of the problem is (or was) with interruptable functions which
> tear-down the stack and thus invalidate the closure for
> interruptable functions.
>
> Another is that last time I checked closures still could not access
> local variables in the enclosing function.

Last time was years ago?

Try giving it a try again before looking somewhere else,
vala closures nowadays have only very few issues. There's no need to
reimplement something that's already working in all cases and pretty much
portable.

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