A whole thread about masturbating to ones favorite programming paradigm....
2009/9/16 Mate Nagy <mn...@port70.net>: >> i'd argue that closures don't mix well with the c style of programming >> >> eg if you add closures then you'd need anonymous functions then you'd >> start writing in the functional style passing around functions then >> you'd need memory management to clean up the return values and >> arguments (so you can write print(sum(map(atoi, >> split(read(filename)))))) and of course exception handling as return >> values have different purpose, not to mention multiple return values >> and sometime polymorphism is required as well with a bit more powerful >> type system with possible runtime dispatch oh and don't forget about >> module systems... > this is all agreeable, but as some nitpicking i'd say that you don't > need exceptions; you can use monads/function combinators instead ;) > > Regards, > Mate > > -- http://gnuffy.chaotika.org - Real Community Distro
