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From: sw@smds.UUCP (Stephen E. Witham)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: On whether C has first-class composable functions
Summary: Treating real and composed functions alike
Message-ID: <308@smds.UUCP>
Date: 28 Jan 91 20:22:40 GMT
References: <305@smds.UUCP> <1991Jan26.132913.11358@spool.cs.wisc.edu> <1991Jan27.035619.24981@spool.cs.wisc.edu>
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In article <1991Jan27.035619.24981@spool.cs.wisc.edu>, quale@picard.cs.wisc.edu (Douglas E. Quale) writes:
> 
> If every use of a function parameter in the program has to know how the
> function was created, this would seem to be a rather marginal definition
> of first class.
> 
I agree.  But you could make a function (or functions, yargh!) to convert
real C function pointers to functionoid structs, then always assume
you're dealing with functionoids...

--Steve Witham
Not-the-fault-of: SMDS, Concord, MA