How do I do closures in Emacs Lisp?

Question

I'm trying to create a function on the fly that would return one constant value.

In JavaScript and other modern imperative languages I would use closures:

function id(a) {
    return function() {return a;};
}

but Emacs lisp doesn't support those.

I can create mix of identity function and partial function application but it's not supported either.

So how do I do that?

Answer 1

Found another solution with lexical-let

(defun foo (n) 
    (lexical-let ((n n)) #'(lambda() n)))

(funcall (foo 10)) ;; => 10