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Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!not-for-mail From: ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: is it possible to have functions with 0, 1, or 2 args? Date: 5 Aug 2024 14:04:45 GMT Organization: Stefan Ram Lines: 7 Expires: 1 Jul 2025 11:59:58 GMT Message-ID: <zero-20240805150417@ram.dialup.fu-berlin.de> References: <7q-dnbTDU4oBES37nZ2dnZfqnPednZ2d@brightview.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de zJ54tRbLvDwoaVBPY5OKbA9nqgl54jL7Ddj38hLn9vNKkg Cancel-Lock: sha1:gHeAAU9XhwX4jCGPDhAegizJZJ0= sha256:TkLyoEBI0FtvCxSd/k9sNHhMtUOPrZOhwmBAZuO/bJc= X-Copyright: (C) Copyright 2024 Stefan Ram. All rights reserved. Distribution through any means other than regular usenet channels is forbidden. It is forbidden to publish this article in the Web, to change URIs of this article into links, and to transfer the body without this notice, but quotations of parts in other Usenet posts are allowed. X-No-Archive: Yes Archive: no X-No-Archive-Readme: "X-No-Archive" is set, because this prevents some services to mirror the article in the web. But the article may be kept on a Usenet archive server with only NNTP access. X-No-Html: yes Content-Language: en-US Bytes: 1763 Mark Summerfield <mark@qtrac.eu> wrote or quoted: >Subject: Re: is it possible to have functions with 0, 1, or 2 args? FWIW, in math, there's no function that takes zero arguments. But in something called "universal algebra", there's a thing like that: so-called "operations of arity 0". (Basically, that's just a fancy term for a constant.)