Anonymous functions in C

This is basically a way of obfuscating your C code. If you want to write obfuscated code, C++ has extensive support for this. I think it's actually a strength of C to not have many features. It ultimately makes code more readable and reliable.

That's neat, but without closures I don't really see how you could do much with it outside of toy examples. Going off the examples -- how often do you write something like a foreach or a map or reduce that doesn't reference its enclosing scope?

Anonymous (or inner) functions aren't really valuable per se but syntactic sugar for writing the code into a static function somewhere in the same file: closures give anonymous (or inner) functions the power which is what makes them useful.

If you use clang, blocks are another approach.<p>[0] <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blocks_(C_language_extension)" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Blocks_(C_language_extension)</a><p>[1] <a href="http://clang.llvm.org/docs/BlockLanguageSpec.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;clang.llvm.org&#x2F;docs&#x2F;BlockLanguageSpec.html</a>

Wondering how a debugger would react to this code?