Colin Watson wrote: > You can pass function pointers around in C happily enough. I appreciate > it's less theoretically elegant than having functions as first-class > citizens, and that it doesn't allow as much compile-time checking, but > does it really limit you?
Yes, it does. C function pointers are just pointers to code; there is no associated environment, no lexical scoping of variables, etc. This is critical to the concept of a functional language (and the lack of lexical scoping is one of the major reasons why traditional Lisp cannot be considered an FPL). Craig
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