On Fri, Jan 11, 2008 at 11:44:04PM -0800, Darren New wrote:
David Brown wrote:
But, since functions in Scheme have closures (which CL has too, BTW)
C has them too, technically. ;-)
C definitely does _not_ have closures.
GCC has, as an extension, limited closures that only live until the
function exits. It has use for things like a 'sort' function that wants a
functional argument. But they aren't nearly as useful because the closure
doesn't live.
Dave
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