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		weavie on July 15, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Enough with the JavaScript already It makes me shudder to think what things would be like if they hadn't included closures in Javascript. Things could have been a hell of a lot worse!

acjohnson55 on July 16, 2013 [–]

Ironically, if they hadn't we'd probably be using something much nicer by now. Closures are one of those couple features that made idioms for sane JS programming possible.

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