Fake anonymous functions in C

Question

In this SO thread, Brian Postow suggested a solution involving fake anonymous functions:

make a comp(L) function that returns the version of comp for arra

Answer 1

I don't believe you can do that with C99 -- there's no partial application or closure facility available unless you start manually generating machine code at runtime.

Apple's recently proposed blocks would work, though you need compiler support for that. Here's a brief overview of blocks. I have no idea when/if any vendor outside apple will support them.