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From: smryan@garth.UUCP (Steven Ryan)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Partial application in C
Message-ID: <828@garth.UUCP>
Date: 28 Jun 88 20:03:27 GMT
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>I hope this covers all the various questions.  I was sort of hoping
>that somebody out there would get excited about the idea of partial
>application, or maybe send details on how to do it on their machine.

It's easy to provide partial application and first class procedures
using a heap (especially with garbage collection). It's not really necessary
modify instruction space to do this.