On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 4:20 PM, Devon H. O'Dell<[email protected]> wrote: > 2009/9/2 Uriel <[email protected]>: >> On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 10:04 AM, Anant Narayanan<[email protected]> 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.
My affinity is to language that display *conceptual integrity*. > 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. Exactly, I still fail to understand the point of this "feature", function points have worked fine for ages, but then I never understood any religion, and that is what Apple seems to be all about. Peace uriel
