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| From | Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.forth |
| Subject | Re: FORTH Trouble--Please Show Me |
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| Date | 2012-10-21 12:51 -0700 |
| Message-ID | <7x3917hacl.fsf@ruckus.brouhaha.com> (permalink) |
| Organization | Nightsong/Fort GNOX |
"Rod Pemberton" <do_not_have@notemailnotz.cnm> writes:
> C has structs and arrays. That's what's needed.
Well, C doesn't really have arrays ;-).
> "Closures" seems to be the one "magic" feature that everyone seems to think
> is missing from their favorite language. What's so special about closures?
They're not magic. You can do similar things with OOP or structs
containing function pointers and data, but closures avoid a lot of
syntactic clutter and bureaucracy compared to that. Example in Python:
def square(x):
return x*x
def derivative(f, h): # approximate numerical derivative
def df(x):
return (f(x+h) - f(x)) / h
return df
print square(3) # prints 9
print derivative(square,0.0001)(3) # prints approximately 6
You could write something like "derivative" in C with function pointers,
but it would be much messier.
> C has been used to implement nearly all, if not all, of the languages on
> Wikipedia's "closure" page that have closures or closure like structures. I
> know I've been over _this_ previously on c.l.f. ...
It's just the usual situation of using a simpler tool to implement a
more advanced one. Jet engines are made using screwdrivers, not the
other way around. C is the screwdriver in that picture.
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Re: FORTH Trouble--Please Show Me "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2012-10-20 15:40 -1000
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Re: FORTH Trouble--Please Show Me Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2012-10-21 12:51 -0700
Re: FORTH Trouble--Please Show Me mhx@iae.nl (Marcel Hendrix) - 2012-10-21 23:50 +0200
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Re: FORTH Trouble--Please Show Me Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2012-10-22 08:13 -0700
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Re: FORTH Trouble--Please Show Me Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2012-10-22 13:14 -0700
Re: FORTH Trouble--Please Show Me "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2012-10-22 10:41 -1000
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Re: FORTH Trouble--Please Show Me Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2012-10-22 14:27 -0700
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Re: FORTH Trouble--Please Show Me "Rod Pemberton" <do_not_have@notemailnotz.cnm> - 2012-10-22 04:12 -0400
Re: FORTH Trouble--Please Show Me Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2012-10-22 01:40 -0700
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Re: FORTH Trouble--Please Show Me "Rod Pemberton" <do_not_have@notemailnotz.cnm> - 2012-10-22 22:27 -0400
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Re: FORTH Trouble--Please Show Me "Rod Pemberton" <do_not_have@notemailnotz.cnm> - 2012-10-22 03:50 -0400
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Re: FORTH Trouble--Please Show Me anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2012-10-23 11:50 +0000
Re: FORTH Trouble--Please Show Me stephenXXX@mpeforth.com (Stephen Pelc) - 2012-10-23 14:39 +0000
Application Benchmarks (was: FORTH Trouble--Please Show Me) anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2012-10-23 15:59 +0000
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Re: Application Benchmarks (was: FORTH Trouble--Please Show Me) anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2012-10-25 14:19 +0000
Re: FORTH Trouble--Please Show Me "Rod Pemberton" <do_not_have@notemailnotz.cnm> - 2012-10-22 03:56 -0400
Re: FORTH Trouble--Please Show Me "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2012-10-21 22:12 -1000
Re: FORTH Trouble--Please Show Me Hugh Aguilar <hughaguilar96@yahoo.com> - 2012-10-22 02:51 -0700
Re: FORTH Trouble--Please Show Me Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2012-10-21 05:29 -0500
Re: FORTH Trouble--Please Show Me "Rod Pemberton" <do_not_have@notemailnotz.cnm> - 2012-10-21 09:35 -0400
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Re: FORTH Trouble--Please Show Me Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2012-10-21 18:43 -0500
Re: FORTH Trouble--Please Show Me "Rod Pemberton" <do_not_have@notemailnotz.cnm> - 2012-10-22 04:20 -0400
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