Unnamed functions, functors or, more formally, function literals

[Russ Allbery]

Kris Warkentin <kewarken@qnx.com> writes:
> From: "Robert Dewar" <dewar@gnat.com>

>> Puzzlement ... in GNU C, you can perfectly well pass the address of a
>> local function. Now if you are saying you want full closures so that there

> No, I was thinking along the lines of java's anonymous inner classes or
> Python's lambda functions or even Perl's anonymous functions:

Perl's anonymous functions are full closures.  Perl also has garbage
collection, which makes that possible.

Closures are pretty far afield from how C works.

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Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>