Ruby and Python

James Logajan JamesL at Lugoj.Com
Mon Nov 20 19:20:28 EST 2000


Gareth McCaughan wrote:
> I wouldn't say that C has first-class functions. You can't
> in any sense make them at runtime, most notably.

Sure you can. I thought everyone knew how to do that. Just because people
don't do it much these days doesn't mean its not possible.

Never could figure out why it was okay in Lisp and other fancy-pants
languages to do self-modifying code but not in C or assembler....



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