Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!ames!ncar!oddjob!mimsy!chris From: chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: Partial application in C Message-ID: <12221@mimsy.UUCP> Date: 29 Jun 88 04:52:58 GMT References: <3353@cognos.UUCP> <619@goofy.megatest.UUCP> <807@garth.UUCP> <828@garth.UUCP> Organization: U of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science, Coll. Pk., MD 20742 Lines: 11 >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. True enough. The modified I-space will be faster, though, at least if the newly created procedures are called often. There is no particular reason that OSes should not have calls to create a new chunk of I-space (or get rid of an old one), except that the demand for it has been low. -- In-Real-Life: Chris Torek, Univ of MD Comp Sci Dept (+1 301 454 7163) Domain: chris@mimsy.umd.edu Path: uunet!mimsy!chris