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Fun With Functoids

If you want to learn more about functoids in general, see this paper by Brian McNamara and Yannis Smaragdakis entitled Functional Programming in C++. There is also this nice FC++ tutorial that is a bit easier to read. For the functional programmers out there (don't look at me--I'm not one), much can be summarized by stating that functoids correspond to closures. For the imperitive programmers out there, we'll define what a closure is some other day. <g> Actually, it's pretty easy to describe functoids for imperitive programmers as well: they are objects that enclose, or represent, functions. Konstantin Laufer has a very nice overview for functoids in C++ in his paper A Framework for Higher-Order Functions in C++.

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Posted at 07:15PM Dec 14, 2004 by Todd Fast in Web  | 
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