Re: [Vala] The state of closures

["Sam Liddicott" <sam liddicott com>]

On 28/04/11 17:45, Luca Bruno wrote:
> 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.

I'd tried to keep up with the release notes but hadn't noticed that 
closures could now access the local variables of the enclosing function.

Thanks for pointing it out, I'll give it a go.

Sam