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Anonymous Coward

Finally but 

What the hell has taken so long this has been massive pain forever and why the stupid name.

Eugene Crosser

Closure? 

Commonly, "closure" is a "thing" that contains a piece of code, usually anonymous function, *and* some data private to that function. What you call "closure" in your example is a simple lambda (anonymous function), not a proper closure.

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