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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
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Subject: Re: Access type to member procedure of instance (Object Oriented
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On Mon, 19 Nov 2012 10:23:13 -0800 (PST), Adam Beneschan wrote:

> This doesn't look at all like what I'm talking about, since &Example::f
> still refers to a method defined for the class Example but without
> reference to a particular object.  Something equivalent would be if you
> could say &object.f (or maybe &object.*p) and store the result of that in
> a pointer that could be called later.

What would you do for:

   type T is tagged ...
   procedure Foo (X, Y, Z : T) ;

Would the closure carry three objects with it?

If closures to be supported then they better be a bit more universal than
just one tagged object + one operation.

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