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qb45 on Feb 22, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: The C language is purely functional (2009)

Too bad that the pure cpp code can't issue C actions which depend on results of previously issued actions. You can't implement cat in cpp+C, while you can in haskell.

robzyb on Feb 22, 2015 [–]

> You can't implement cat in cpp+C

Yes you can.

I think that you missed the point of the article.

Just write a cpp macro that outputs a cat implementation in C.

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