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Ok, thanks for the elaboration.

But why does a closure not simply have a pointer to the pad (thereby gaining access to all lexcials)?

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Re^15: Accessing lexicals in other scopes dynamically by name
by ikegami (Patriarch) on Aug 02, 2010 at 03:32 UTC
    Because it would be bad for this code to print "b" twice.
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