== Quote from Michel Fortin ([email protected])'s article > On 2009-09-03 14:14:27 -0400, Sean Kelly <[email protected]> said: > > == Quote from Walter Bright ([email protected])'s article > >> One could argue that gcc has them as an extension but nobody uses them. > >> My experience with adding extensions to DM C++ is that nobody uses them > >> because it is non-standard, not because they are a bad idea. > > > > And that's why I won't be using Apple's new closures, regardless of whether > > I'd actually find them useful. > Even for OSX-specific code?
Yup. I always write code with portability in mind, because my target platforms have a way of changing. If I were writing user-mode applications for OSX this might be different, since I'd be using Cocoa or whatever anyway, but... > I see no reason not to use them in a Cocoa app for instance, nor when > you want to schedule tasks using Grand Central Dispatch. You're already > bound to Apple-world anyway. Yeah exactly. That just isn't the realm that I work in.
