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From: peter@ficc.UUCP (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: anonymous functions
Summary: The syntax is wedged.
Message-ID: <798@.UUCP>
Date: 19 May 88 14:23:11 GMT
References: <5773@sigi.Colorado.EDU> <11325@mimsy.UUCP> <282@teletron.UUCP> <862@xyzzy.UUCP>
Organization: SCADA
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In article <862@xyzzy.UUCP>, throopw@xyzzy.UUCP writes:
>         signal( SIGINT, void (int sig){ interrupted = 1; } );

>         qsort( (void *)tbl, n_elt, n_elt*sizeof(tbl_elt_t),
>                int (void *a, void *b){
>                    return( strcmp( (tbl_elt_t *)a->name, 
>                                    (tbl_elt_t *)b->name ) ); } );

> 	/* crummy hash function, but good enough for whatever purpose: */
>         hfind( name, table, int (char *s){ return(*s); } );

I think that the syntax is a bit wedged here. What you're actually doing
is akin to typecasting:

	(void (*)(int sig)){ interrupted = 1; }
	(int (*)(void *a, void *b)) { ... }
	(int (*)(char *s)){ return s; }

A bit more verbose, but should require less patching of the language
definition.
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