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		gpderetta 1 day ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Cost of a Closure in C This is the classic lexical vs dynamic scoping. Dynamic scoping works great until it doesn't.

groundzeros2015 1 day ago [–]

Don’t use C then? It sounds like you want JavaScript, Python, or Lisp.

Once again, the caller of the API does not declare any variables so there is no dynamic scoping.

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