The Dual Role of
return
Many programming languages get along just fine without a
return statement. In Pascal, for example, the return value is
assigned to a dummy variable whose name equals the name of the
function.
function foo(arg: integer): integer;
begin
(* compute return value *)
foo := retval;
(* maybe some more cleanup *)
end;
In Scheme, the body of...
I teach a graduate programming languages class at San Jose State
University. In order to inject some topics of current interest, I had a
lab about closures and the competing closure proposals for Java 7. I got
an email from Neal Gafter: “Hey, it's really cool to see your
reference to BGGA in a SJSU lab assignment!” I asked if he could
give a talk at the department...
