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Hmm ... I don't know C's pointer arithmetic sufficiently well, but I wouldn't call this functional programming, so callbacks alone are not enough.
For instance, can you write a generator function which returns an iterator function?
What about closures?
So probably are First class citizen a prerequisite for FP but not the whole picture.
update
see also First class functions
Cheers Rolf
(addicted to the Perl Programming Language :)
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