Ruby and Python

[Philip 'Yes, that's my address' Newton]

On Sun, 19 Nov 2000 21:45:36 -0500, graham <graham73 at telocity.com> wrote:

> Jeremy Hylton
> > The normal definition of "first class" is an object that can be named
> > and treated as data at runtime.  A first class object can be bound to a
> > variable name, passed as an argument to a function, or returned from a
> > function.  The term has nothing to do with scoping rules.
> 
> So by this definition C has first class functions. Does it?

No. You can only do all the above with pointers to functions, not with functions
themselves.

Cheers,
Philip
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