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Yeah, I've been bitten by this more than once while writing code using for-each and Iterator in JavaScript. It is definitely counter-intuitive.

• bad_user 16y ago
  What people that get bitten don't get: closures are lazy. They aren't executed right away unless you want to. That's their purpose, with the most common use-case being to postpone a piece of computation for later (until you've got everything you need). So it cannot close over values, and if it did it would mean that you couldn't modify the values from the outer-scope (which you just closed over) ... making closures totally useless.
  • sid0 16y ago
    The way it seems counter-intuitive to me is that I think of each loop iteration as containing a fresh variable, and not the same variable being re-assigned to over and over again.
  • MichaelGG 16y ago
    Well, F# doesn't allow closures to access local mutable variables, and they don't seem "totally useless". In the case of a for loop, F# seems more intuitive: if you loop and generate closures using the loop variable, each closure will get the value at the time its created. This isn't as straightforward in C#, as there are no immutable local bindings. It's annoying, but given the overall language, is probably the best fit.