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From: Kaz Kylheku <643-408-1753@kylheku.com>
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Subject: Re: Recursion, Yo
Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2024 17:19:31 -0000 (UTC)
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On 2024-04-10, David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> wrote:
> Basically, anything you could do with a nested function in gcc C you can 
> do in C++:

Except pass that lambda to another module that expects a simple function
pointer.

That's not just C libraries. There is a foreign function ecosystem based
on the conventions of C. If you have a function pointer, you can pass it
into any high level language that supports C interpo, and it can call
that thing.

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