I agree with you. It occurs to me that if you're using a whole bunch of anonymous functions with nested lexical closures, then the shared state between them st

I agree with you. It occurs to me that if you're using a whole bunch of anonymous functions with nested lexical closures, then the shared state between them starts looking a lot like global variables. And globals are evil, but relative to the other nightmares that Gotos could produce, they're pretty mild.