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From: sane@cs.uiuc.edu (Aamod Sane)
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Subject: Re: function composition in C
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aet@felix.ee.mu.OZ.AU (bert) writes:


>	Does anyone know how to write a compose function in C,
>without writing a Scheme interpreter to do it in.

>A call should look something like this:
>	(compose(sqr,cube)) (2)
>which would evaluate to 64.

>	"compose" is a one-liner in any functional language,
>but I suspect that it is, given the above constraint, impossible in C.
>(then again, I'm just an undergrad, so what would I know :-)

>	Feel free to use pointers wherever they seem appropriate.
>	(so the above call could look like:
>	(*compose(&sqr,&cube)) (2)	   )

>	Many thanks for everyone's helpful comments!

>		Bert Thompson.

Write to comp.lang.misc. There was recently a major war on this..

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