2009/9/2 Uriel <urie...@gmail.com>: > On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 10:04 AM, Anant Narayanan<an...@kix.in> wrote: >> Mac OS 10.6 introduced a new C compiler frontend (clang), which added >> support for "blocks" in C [1]. Blocks basically add closures and anonymous >> functions to C (and it's derivatives). Full details with examples are in the >> linked article. I think the feature is quite elegant and might be useful in >> cases where you want map/reduce like functionality in C. > > Er., I might be more dumb than usual, but why on earth would you > need/want this garbage to get map/reduce functionality in C? > > To me it seems the typical "lets come up with some cute 'feature' and > then we will figure out how to hype ourselves all the way to hell".
I don't see why you'd particularly need / want this in C, but the argument here seems silly given that you've stressed your affinity to other languages that implement closures / anonymous functions. In any case, implementing closures in C isn't too difficult, and if you want to return a function, just return a pointer to it. --dho
