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From: quale@picard.cs.wisc.edu (Douglas E. Quale)
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Subject: Re: On whether C has first-class composable functions
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Date: 4 Feb 91 16:06:39 GMT
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In article <14484:Feb206:54:1191@kramden.acf.nyu.edu> brnstnd@kramden.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein) writes:
>In article <1991Feb2.012304.2425@spool.cs.wisc.edu> quale@picard.cs.wisc.edu (Douglas E. Quale) writes:
>> The functions are statically allocated, and this ISN'T an arbitrary limit?
>
>Correct. There is no fixed or arbitrary limit on the size of a C program
>or on the number of functions it contains.
>

Dan, sometimes I think we don't speak the same language.

The number of functions in a C program is limited to EXACTLY the number of
functions that are provided at compile time.  This number cannot be altered
(most crucially, increased) at run time.

How do you know, at compile time, EXACTLY how many composed functions
I want???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

-- Doug Quale
quale@picard.cs.wisc.edu