From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Date: Mon,  7 Sep 2009 09:05:10 +0000
From: comeau@panix.com (Greg Comeau)
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Subject: Re: [9fans] "Blocks" in C
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In article <25CF9336-C071-44A5-AB04-6BB042BC5755@kix.in>,
Anant Narayanan <anant@kix.in> wrote:
>I understand the argument that blocks don't "feel" C-like, but the
>argument that you can do everything with just using function pointers
>is BS.

Even one step further, even if we all agree blocks are BS,
moving more generally, that something can already be done using
feature X had BETTER be a consideration, but that consideration alone
is often insufficient.
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