On 25/04/2012 06:08 AM, Darren New wrote:
> On 4/23/2012 1:05, Invisible wrote:
>>> There are lots of languages that let you can pass a function as an
>>> argument.
>>
>> Heh. I bet most of them are scripting languages though. :-P
>
> Not really. Arguably, even C allows it, C++, C# allows a delegate which
> is essentially the same thing, and yes, bunches of interpreted languages.

C and C++ have function pointers. It's dubious whether functions are 
"first class", but certainly you can pass them as arguments.

C# presumably allows /everything/.

Java allows you to use the reflection API to create an object that 
represents a function method, and to invoke that method. Alternatively 
you can use anonymous inner classes. (The fact that this feature even 
/exists/ tells you how badly Java programmers want anonymous functions.)

Pascal? Forget it.

Eiffel? Well, they have "delegates", which are sort-of the same thing.

Come to think of it, I don't actually /know/ any other compiled languages...

Obviously, any random scripting languages supports eval() and so 
trivially supports first-class functions.

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