composition of functions

Brian Bliss bliss at sp64.csrd.uiuc.edu
Thu Feb 14 08:22:50 AEST 1991



>Reading all the flamage about composable functions, I am forced to
>note that everyone appears to agree:
	(1) Functions are not first-class objects in C
	(2) Composition is a difficult notion to express in C.
>The disagreements are on the subject of whether this problem is a
>major failing in the language.

1) i agree with.

2)
   say you have two functions,

   int f (int x);
   int g (int x);

   what's so hard about writing:

   int fg (int x) { return (f(g(x)); }

 ???????????????????

 bb



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