Yet another example of a retarded implementation of first-class procedures:
http://developer.apple.com/mac/articles/cocoa/introblocksgcd.html The whole intro paragraph is highly amusing in all regards, so, I can't resist not copying it here: Block Objects: Block objects (informally, “blocks”) are an extension to C, as well as Objective-C and C++, that make it easy for programmers to define self-contained units of work. Blocks are similar to — but far more powerful than — traditional function pointers. The key differences are: • Blocks can be defined inline, as “anonymous functions.” • Blocks capture read-only copies of local variables, similar to “closures” in other languages [Hello?!?!?!] This is kind of functionality is common in dynamically-typed interpreted languages [Hello?!?!?!], but has never before been widely available to C programmers. Apple has published both the Blocks Languages Specification and our implementation as open source under the MIT license, added blocks support to GCC 4.2 and clang, and has submitted it for consideration as part of the next version of the C programming language [HELLO!]. Better head to r6rs-discuss and propose this awesomeness for R7 now [of course we won't need to pile on features, so, I'll also propose that we remove these silly opaque #<procedure> things from Scheme and use quoted lambda S-expressions instead]. Aziz,,,
