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0 pointslanna9y ago0 comments

No, wrong. You can pass pointers to functions in C.

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It is a bit snarky, but also has a ground truth: pointers to functions aren't functions.

More importantly, you cannot make functions in C. For example, one cannot write a function that, given pointers to functions that compute 1/x and sin(x), returns a pointer to a function that returns 1/sin(x)

eridius9y ago

That's not a function, that's a closure. And you can simulate that in C by creating a struct that contains the function pointer and the set of captured data (and then when you invoke the function you pass the struct to it as a parameter).

junke9y ago

Yes, hence the distinction between first-class features and others, which you have to implement yourself.

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