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From: karl@ima.isc.com (Karl Heuer)
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Subject: Re: On whether C has first-class composable functions
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Date: 22 Jan 91 20:06:15 GMT
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In article <BBC.91Jan21120817@sicilia.rice.edu> Benjamin Chase <bbc@rice.edu> writes:
>[defend the idea that compose() should be polymorphic]

Well, if you put it that way, then C doesn't even have a way to write a
function% to add two numbers together, since you have to decide at compile-time
what the domain and range will be.

Karl W. Z. Heuer (karl@ima.isc.com or uunet!ima!karl), The Walking Lint
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% To avoid trivial macro solutions: I want to be able to take the address of
  the resulting function.  No fair converting everything to double, either; I
  may have a machine where some large integers can't be represented as floats.