Re: Add nested-function support in a language the based on a stack-machine

Kaz Kylheku <157-073-9834@kylheku.com>
Wed, 14 Mar 2018 00:07:39 +0000 (UTC)

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From: Kaz Kylheku <157-073-9834@kylheku.com>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2018 00:07:39 +0000 (UTC)
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Keywords: C, design
Posted-Date: 14 Mar 2018 00:42:06 EDT

On 2018-03-13, Kartik Agaram <ak@akkartik.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 12, 2018 at 8:09 PM, William Clodius <w.clodius@icloud.com> wrote:
>> Didn't Lisp have first order functions and closures in 58? If I remember
>> the discussion of APT in the HOPL I conference proceedings correctly it
>> surprisingly had the equivalent of structs.
>
> Lisp had first-class functions but closures require lexical scope,
> which didn't land until Scheme in the '70s.


Anonyous functions without environments are basically just
function pointers.


If those are first class functions, then C has first class functions.

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