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brnstnd@kramden.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein) writes:

>I think we all agree on what ``first-class,'' ``composable,'' and
>``function'' mean. A first-class object can be passed as arguments and
>assigned to variables. A function is something for which there exists
>one evaluation operator for each value of some type. A composable
>function also supports a composition operation with the obvious
>definition. This is all reasonably standard terminology.

There is an important property of "first-class" objects missing here.
A first-class object does not have to be named.  

>To sum up: ``C has first-class composable functions with reasonable
>efficiency and without ridiculously complicated syntax'' is good enough
>for me.

>---Dan

Strike "first-class".  C functions do not have the status of numbers because
they must be named before use.

By the way, what function would "apply(compose(compose,f),x);" return in C?
Strike "composable"?

-Ken Dickey				kend@data.uucp