Re: Lua threads share global data?

[Rici Lake <lua@...>]

On 21-Dec-05, at 8:46 PM, John Klimek wrote:

> Rici:  Thanks for the link!  It seems to talk a lot about "closures"
> but I'm not sure what they are.  I've searched the Wiki and have seen
> some information but it was still a bit confusing... Can you explain
> this a little more to me?

Programming in Lua devotes a chapter to the subject: 
<http://www.lua.org/pil/6.1.html>. But the short answer is that a 
"closure" is the first-class Lua object which you probably think of as 
a function.