I like that the author ran out of steam for whimsical allegory & contrived examples after a page or two, and the rest of the chapter reads very tightly & well.

I like that the author ran out of steam for whimsical allegory & contrived examples after a page or two, and the rest of the chapter reads very tightly & well. Also nice to see another explanation of lexical scoping, to complement my understanding of perl's pads[0]. 0: http://hop.perl.plover.com/book/pdf/03CachingAndMemoization.pdf http://hop.perl.plover.com/book/pdf/03CachingAndMemoization.... pp65-80