alt Hacker NewsThat's all there is to it. I don't understand the whole obsession with closures.
I've used lambdas extensively in modern C++. I hate them with a passion.
I've also used OCaml. An awesome language where this stuff is super natural and beautiful.
I don't understand why people want to shoehorn functional programming into C. C++ was terrible already, and is now worse for it.
> we’re going to be focusing on and looking specifically at Closures in C and C++, since this is going to be about trying to work with and – eventually – standardize something for ISO C that works for everyone.
Sigh. My heart sinks.
It does seem needlessly complex. I think a better idea is to just have a type that is a pair of pointer-sized words. That pattern crops up again and again - context pointer and function pointer, array and its size, memory allocation and effective size, etc. The problem with having both pieces in separate variables is that it is very easy to lose track of what is where. If you have it in a single bundle it is a lot simpler to use. The exact design needs a lot more consideration for sure, because I would like something simpler than writing anonymous structs everywhere (which I can already do), but at the same time flexible enough for most use cases.