Higher-order functions?

[H. S. Teoh]

On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 07:29:20PM +0200, Jonas H. wrote:
> Wow, thanks for all the answers! Seems to be a great community here.

Welcome to the community! :-)


> What do you guys think about adding the term "anonymous functions"
> to the frontpage and features page? I think that one's a lot more
> comman than "delegates" (even if it's not exactly the same thing).

Keep in mind that there are two kinds of function here, one is
"function" which is just like a C function pointer (cannot access
variables in its containing lexical scope), the other is "delegate",
which is a "fat" function pointer (has access to variables in containing
scope).

Furthermore, there's a distinction between the function
pointers/delegates themselves vs. function literals (i.e., the syntax of
writing (int x) => (x^^2)), which is probably what you mean by
"anonymous functions" here.


T

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