This post is in response to the WeekendDevPuzzle of 2022-01-22. This thread has submissions from people who chose to share their perspectives on the puzzle. I'll be linking this post to this Twitter thread, to avoid polluting the original one.
Given that I started these puzzles as a way to peel the onion, so to say, lambdas + closures make for a particularly great subject, because of the large difference between our mental models of them (useful while programming), vs how they're actually implemented.
You see, as programmers, we're quite comfortable with moving data around, be it when we're passing them as parameters to a function, or when returning values. Whether the data is in stack, heap, register, it doesn't matter, nor whether we're passing them by value or by reference. I mean, it does matter, but our mental models aren't too s
