Functional programming

[Chris Angelico]

On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 8:43 AM, Marko Rauhamaa <marko at pacujo.net> wrote:
> Chris Angelico <rosuav at gmail.com>:
>
>> C++ at least has typedefs, and in the newer standards, the 'auto'
>> keyword was repurposed.
>
> Last I checked, C++ had no satisfactory way to express
> callbacks/functors/listeners/lambdas. That's why Qt came up with a
> metacompiler to supplement C++'s facilities.

I think one of the recent standards added some kind of closure for
callbacks. I tried to grok it and couldn't figure out what it was
doing, so I gave it up as a bad job. It got hairy. Really hairy.
Either that, or I was reading a poorly-written article, which is also
possible.

ChrisA