Xref: utzoo comp.object:511 comp.lang.c++:5686 Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cornell!murthy From: murthy@alsvid.cs.cornell.edu (Chet Murthy) Newsgroups: comp.object,comp.lang.c++ Subject: Re^2: Continuations Message-ID: <34657@cornell.UUCP> Date: 28 Nov 89 21:06:27 GMT References: <2664@bingvaxu.cc.binghamton.edu> <9624@pyr.gatech.EDU> <1623@odin.SGI.COM> <1989Nov28.183816.15252@odi.com> <9964@june.cs.washington.edu> Sender: nobody@cornell.UUCP Organization: Cornell Univ. CS Dept. Ithaca NY Lines: 13 peterd@cs.washington.edu (Peter C. Damron) writes: >I just had to reply when I saw this. C and C++ are definitely "lexically >scoped" (I would prefer to call it statically scoped). Yes, they are, but they don't provide support for closures as first-class objects (the funarg problem). So they don't provide "full" support for lexical scoping. Scheme/ML do. --chet-- --chet-- murthy@cs.cornell.edu Brought to you by Super Global Mega Corp .com