On Sat, Aug 23, 2014 at 7:56 AM, Michael Torrie <torr...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 08/22/2014 03:49 PM, Chris Angelico wrote: >> My main issue with callbacks in either C or C++ is that functions >> aren't first-class objects. You can pass function pointers around (and >> you don't need (void *) to do it, you can use typed function pointers >> just fine), but you can't actually construct a function at run-time. > > I'm not sure I fully understand your meaning. You seem to prefer > dynamic languages, which is great because this is the Python list after > all. I'm not sure I know of any statically compiled language that lets > one construct a function at run-time. I know Boost supports lambda > functions but I'm not sure this is quite what you are referring to either.
Right, I'm just saying that callbacks are inherently restrictive in a language without first-class functions. So I'm not sure why you have further issue with C++; C's way of doing callbacks works fine in C++, and there's not going to be anything better. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
