Re: On whether C has first-class composable functions

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From: Benjamin Chase
Date: Tue, 29 Jan 1991 18:58

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

> It is trivial to implement portable, dynamically allocated,
> first-class, composable functions in C, and I'm amazed that people are
> asking whether it's possible.

Dan,

If you feel that such an implementation is trivial, how do you feel
about implementing the version that I described in an earlier post?
Probably you can just take one of the many "composition of integer
function" implementations that's been posted here, hack it up a bit to
gain a small bit of added functionality, and run it through the ol'
compiler for us?

	On the edge of my seat,
	Ben
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	Ben Chase <bbc@rice.edu>, Rice University, Houston, Texas

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