----- Original Message ----- > 18.10.2011 0:53, Andrew Pennebaker пишет: > > Does Free Pascal have anonymous functions that you can pass around, > > e.g. > > to a sort(compare : function, arr : array) function? > > > > anonymous functions = closures = lambdas are part of functional > paradigm. object pascal itself is not functional language. > But there is modern trend to design multiparadigm languages (usually > OO > + functional + imperative). > Delphi followed this trend. So the question is: should freepascal > follow > this trend too?
Taking these terms in the broadest sense possible, wouldn't we say that OOP is mostly a functional development paradigm? Not a rhetorical question, I seriously am not sure. OP's somewhat idiosyncratic requirement to put all the OOP metadata in a separate interface section of your code kind of underlines what I'm talking about. It seems to me that in OOP, whatever we might happen to do procedurally, there's a strong declarative odor to everything happening at the class/interface level. -gmt _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
