On 4 Jul 2000, Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk wrote:
> Tue, 4 Jul 2000 00:40:18 -0700 (PDT), Ronald J. Legere <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>pisze:
>
> > I think this is driven by the recent addition of closure like
> > 'agents' (http://www.eiffel.com/doc/manuals/language/agent/).
>
> They are poor substitutes of closures.
> ...
Maybe they are, but this will evidently help with
certain problems, which used to be quite awkward
to solve in Eiffel, such as implementation of higher
order functions.
If this thing were already in when interfacing to NAG
C libraries (EiffelMath) coding pointer-to-pointer-to-pointer
thingies (and NAG has plenty of them) would have been much
easier for us then. From this perspective this new language
extension is a progress and should be generally welcome.
Jan
