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		rzzzt on April 16, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Plain C API design, the real world Kobayashi Maru ... Can you emulate partial function application somehow in C or does the caller still need to supply "this" as an argument to instance methods?

ablob on April 17, 2023 [–]

You can emulate partial function application. You also always need to supply some kind of "this" if you don't want your data to live in static memory.

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