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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.
updatesee also First class functions
Cheers Rolf In reply to Re^4: What technical benfits perl offers over python + few more questions.
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