Pascal in production environments (was Re: lisadraw)

Actually, if you use gcc instead, it has something very much like lambda-expressions in many of their common uses. You don't get real data-as-code lambda expressions, but you get functions with no real name which appear textually at the point of use. For example, qsort(vec, n, sizeof(FOO), ({ int cmp(const void *a, const void *b) { return( ((FOO *)a)->sortkey - ((FOO *)b)->sortkey ); } &cmp; }) ); It's one of the four extensions to C I like and use; I find they greatly increase the utility of the language. (The others are nonlocal gotos as a throw mechanism, array sizes which are not compile-time constants, and labeled control structure - the last not being present in stock gcc.) /~\ The ASCII der Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML mouse at rodents.montreal.qc.ca / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B