What are closures in C#? - Stack Overflow A closure in C# takes the form of an in-line delegate anonymous method A closure is attached to its parent method meaning that variables defined in parent's method body can be referenced from within the anonymous method
python - How are closures implemented? - Stack Overflow This is not how the implementation works Closures don't keep a pointer to the stack frame they were created in Also, blocks don't have their own stack frames Python implements closures using closure cell objects A cell object holds a pointer to the variable contents, and everything that needs to use the variable gets a pointer to the cell
functional programming - Closures are poor mans objects and vice . . . Objects are poor man's closures Consider Java Java is an object-oriented programming language with no language level support for real lexical closures As a work-around Java programmers use anonymous inner classes that can close over the variables available in lexical scope (provided they're final) In this sense, objects are poor man's closures