On Sat, Dec 22, 2007 at 05:25:26PM +0300, Miguel Mitrofanov wrote: >>> That's not C. >>> That's the C preprocessor, which is a textual substitution macro >>> language. >> >> Well, the preprocessor is part of the language in a way. These two come >> together. > > No. In fact, these are even two different programs, see man cpp.
No, in fact, preprocessing is an integral part of translating a C program, see the standard. The standard allows implementing the translation phases 1-6 (the so-called preprocessing phases) as a separate program, but there is no requirement to do that. It is true, however, that preprocessing used to be (in pre-standard days) separate from the language. This has not been true for decades. That said, this is all irrelevant to the question of whether C allows first-class functions. I'm sure we all are capable of writing Haskell programs that do not have simple and readable translations to C :) -- Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho, Jyväskylä, Finland http://antti-juhani.kaijanaho.fi/newblog/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/antti-juhani/ _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
