Here's a quick writeup of why this idea is (luckily!) broken in multiple ways.

> "What's important here is that the alice function doesn't maintain state."

This merely turns variable usage into closure usage. You do not maintain state by means of using code variables, you maintain state by means of using a closure-function environment that the function is closed over. The closure-function is compiled code; the environment is...

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