Re: Are functional objects (functors/closures) possible?

[Brett Viren]

Paul Kienzle writes:
 > Hmmm....
 > 
 > maybe you could fake a curry using a DLD function.  You could
 > call it something like:
 > 
 >      f = curry('x','y','g(x,y,$a,$b)')
 > 
 > which would do the equivalent of the following:
 > 
 >      static n = 0;
 >      global curry_val;
 >      s.a = a;
 >      s.b = b;
 >      curry_val{n} = s;
 >      eval(sprintf("function curry_ret = curry%d(x,y)\n\
 >                       s=curry_val{%d};\n\
 >                    curry_ret=g(x,y,s.a,s.b);\n\
 >                    endfunction",n,n);
 >      n++;

Yes, I think I get it.  Clever.  

Also, I didn't learn yet that octave had an "eval" function.  I think
this negates what I said to John about being limited by not being able
to generate new functions dynamically.

I must say, octave is pretty cool.

Thanks,
-Brett.



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