Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!zephyr.ens.tek.com!uw-beaver!rice!bbc From: bbc@rice.edu (Benjamin Chase) Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc Subject: Re: On whether C has first-class composable functions Message-ID: Date: 29 Jan 91 18:58:52 GMT References: <21245@yunexus.YorkU.CA> <9606:Jan2806:52:1991@kramden.acf.nyu.edu> <6800@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> <15626:Jan2904:11:0191@kramden.acf.nyu.edu> Sender: news@rice.edu (News) Reply-To: Benjamin Chase Organization: Center for Research on Parallel Computations Lines: 19 In-Reply-To: brnstnd@kramden.acf.nyu.edu's message of 29 Jan 91 04:11:01 GMT brnstnd@kramden.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein) writes: > It is trivial to implement portable, dynamically allocated, > first-class, composable functions in C, and I'm amazed that people are > asking whether it's possible. Dan, If you feel that such an implementation is trivial, how do you feel about implementing the version that I described in an earlier post? Probably you can just take one of the many "composition of integer function" implementations that's been posted here, hack it up a bit to gain a small bit of added functionality, and run it through the ol' compiler for us? On the edge of my seat, Ben -- Ben Chase , Rice University, Houston, Texas