Re: ANN: One Step to GNUstep - pre-release version 0.9

[Wolfgang Lux]

David Chisnall wrote:

> Blocks were in Smalltalk right from the start.  They are one of the  
> fundamental features of most object oriented languages.  The syntax  
> is, I agree, quite ugly, but they're one of the fundamental building  
> blocks of object oriented languages.  JavaScript and Self manage a  
> rich object system with just dictionaries and blocks.
>
> After using Pragmatic Smalltalk for a bit, the main thing I missed  
> when returning to Objective-C was the BlockClosure class.  With  
> Objective-C 2, I can use blocks in Objective-C code, and it makes  
> life a lot easier for a whole lot of things (sorting, filtering,  
> visitor pattern...).

Indeed. Higher-order features (like blocks) were maybe made popular by  
functional languages, but they are in no way restricted to functional  
languages.

Wolfgang