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From: Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org>
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Subject: Re: Abstract Syntax Tree for C programs
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David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> writes:
> On 05/06/2019 20:36, bart4858@gmail.com wrote:
[...]
>> There's no language where a generic function pointer can be
>> represented by a type simpler than 'void(*)(void)'?
>
> I don't know of many programming languages that have generic function 
> pointers at all.

<OT>
Arguably Perl does.  A reference to a subroutine can be used to
call any subroutine.  Perl subroutines do not (usually) have type
information; any arguments are passed as a list of zero or more
scalars, each of which can be a number, a string, a reference, etc.
It's easy to write a Perl subroutine that can accept and process,
for example, either four numbers or one string.
</OT>

-- 
Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) kst-u@mib.org  <http://www.ghoti.net/~kst>
Will write code for food.
void Void(void) { Void(); } /* The recursive call of the void */