How are nested functions and lexical scope compiled in JVM languages?
问题 As a concrete example for my question, here's a snippet in Python (which should be readable to the broadest number of people and which has a JVM implementation anyway): def memo(f): cache = {} def g(*args): if args not in cache: cache[args] = f(*args) return cache[args] return g How do industrial-strength languages compile a definition like this, in order to realize static scope? What if we only have nested definition but no higher order function-value parameters or return values, à la Pascal