Re: technology discussion → does the world need a "new" C ?

On 2024-07-11, Michael S <already5chosen@yahoo.com> wrote:

 

With a C-like typedef, we can declutter the definition of mutiplier:
 
  typedef int (*int_int_fn)(int);
 
  int_int_fn multiplier(int coefficient) {
     return lambda(int x) int {
        return coefficient * x;
     }
  }
 

>
Thank you.
Your example confirms my suspicion that the difference between first
and second class of functions doesn't become material until language
supports closures.

It sort of becomes half-material when the language supports
downward-funarg-only closures, like Pascal and GNU C,
where our lambda is good as long as multiplier doesn't exit.

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