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From: yoann padioleau <padator@wanadoo.fr>
To: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>,
	Damien Guichard <alphablock@wanadoo.fr>
Cc: caml-list <caml-list@yquem.inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] The Caml morale crasher #1
Date: Thu,  8 Sep 2005 14:55:33 +0200 (CEST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <9504834.1126184133428.JavaMail.www@wwinf1536> (raw)

> * Damien Guichard:
> 
> > When annoucing an OCaml project on a public forum i have been
> > advised to renunce lambdas because it would impede translation to "a
> > less obscure, more popular language".
> 
> Most languages offer strictly downward closures.  Even GCC's C
> implementation has them. 8-)

Again I think I will disagree on the choice of your words :)
GCC has nested functions. I think that we can't call that a closure; a closure is something
that close his environment and store it somewhere. There is no such thing in GCC I think.

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             reply	other threads:[~2005-09-08 12:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-09-08 12:55 yoann padioleau [this message]
2005-09-08 16:35 ` skaller
2005-09-08 16:44 ` David Brown
2005-09-08 17:14   ` Florian Weimer
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-09-01 16:32 Damien Guichard
2005-09-03  6:06 ` Erik de Castro Lopo
2005-09-07 11:58 ` Matt Gushee
2005-09-07 18:06   ` Damien Guichard
2005-09-07 18:06   ` Damien Guichard
2005-09-08 12:46 ` Florian Weimer

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