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Re:Computer Science: Smart People Have Weird Hangups by eru on Monday September 24, 2007 @09:25AM (#58876)
"(if you want function pointers, just use function pointers, and forget all this modern "object oriented" garbage)"

Why not use just functions as first class data?

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Re:Computer Science: Smart People Have Weird Hangups by cperciva on Monday September 24, 2007 @05:07PM (#59067)
> Why not [just use] functions as first class data?

Because they're not. When you copy an object, you don't copy all of its methods; instead, you copy all of its function pointers.

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Re:Computer Science: Smart People Have Weird Hangups by eru on Tuesday September 25, 2007 @04:53AM (#59352)
I mean there are languages that have functions as first class data. Not wrapped up in objects. Think Lisp, Scheme, Haskell. Even Python can do this - otherwise map and filter would hardly work.
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Re:Computer Science: Smart People Have Weird Hangups by eru on Tuesday September 25, 2007 @10:29AM (#59412)
Btw: I really meant 'just functions', nothing around them.
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