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Article #2539Re: Look, Ma, I can dynamically compose functions in C!
From: Dan Bernstein
Date: Sat, 22 Dec 1990 06:35
Date: Sat, 22 Dec 1990 06:35
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In article <4978@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> chased@rbbb.Eng.Sun.COM (David Chase) writes: > Ah, but that is not a C "function", but something else (a struct). So what? Are we talking about real-world programming, or are we talking about computer science? > You have not contradicted Lennart's assertion, > which is that functions in C are not first class objects. Dave Gudeman already contradicted it. Functions (which the C language calls ``function pointers'') are first-class objects by the usual definition, because they can be passed as arguments and assigned to variables. > Ugh. Please read and think before posting, ok? It says here that > your message cost the net hundreds if not thousands of dollars to send > everywhere. I don't see what you contributed to the discussion. Are you paid to write code, or to do computer science? ---Dan
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!tmsoft!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!yale!cmcl2!kramden.acf.nyu.edu!brnstnd From: brnstnd@kramden.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein) Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc Subject: Re: Look, Ma, I can dynamically compose functions in C! Message-ID: <11465:Dec2206:35:4090@kramden.acf.nyu.edu> Date: 22 Dec 90 06:35:40 GMT References: <1990Dec19.222059.6878@mathrt0.math.chalmers.se> <19468:Dec2100:23:0790@kramden.acf.nyu.edu> <4978@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> Organization: IR Lines: 22