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Re:Lisp-Stick on a Python by merlincorey on Tuesday November 15, 2022 @02:22AM (#33606260)
Yeah, there is nothing complicated about returning a static array in C.

C is a much simpler language than many people assume -- of course, it can get really hairy and complicated especially when you need to do dynamic memory management, but that's not what the GP was asking for in this case.

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Re:Lisp-Stick on a Python by chronial on Tuesday November 15, 2022 @05:36AM (#33607549)
> that's not what the GP was asking for in this case.

You really think that when they mentioned the dynamically allocated `Vec` in Rust (which has fixed-sized arrays) and "manual memory management" in C, what they were actually talking about was a static array?

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Re:Lisp-Stick on a Python by jnxx on Tuesday November 15, 2022 @02:06PM (#33613477)
But you need dynamic memory management for side-effect-free functional programming.
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