I am wondering about whether it is better to use closures or functions
in scripts, and whether there are extant "best idioms".

Take for example drawing the von Koch Snowflake -- basic recursive
fractal curve, so uses recursion for implementation (well there are
other ways but recursive is probably the easiest). Using closures you
get:

    def smallestLine = 1.0
    def vonKochCurve
    vonKochCurve = { g -> . . . }

etc, etc. Using functions, you have to use the binding because of the
(in my view) inconsistent and counter-intuitive scope rules:

    smallestLine = 1.0
    def vonKochCurve ( g ) { . . . }

I guess the question is what do people consider the better coding style
and why?

Thanks.

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