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From: jmaloney@cs.washington.edu (John Maloney)
Newsgroups: comp.object
Subject: Re: Closures in C? WAS: Objective-C Review
Message-ID: <12447@june.cs.washington.edu>
Date: 2 Jul 90 23:24:37 GMT
Organization: U of Washington, Computer Science, Seattle
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edwardj@microsoft.UUCP (Edward JUNG) suggests:
>Implementing closure-like semantics without the full generality
>can be done along language stack frame restrictions without any
>trouble.  In some ways DLL-like functionality is like this, just
>without the object and protocol-based orientation.

Sorry, Edward, I don't know what "DLL-like functionality" is nor
do I understand exactly what implementation you propose. Can
you explain? It sounds as though one restriction would be that
blocks could not be returned from functions. Is that right?

	-- John