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		cicero on April 7, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Poll: Do you know C? There are structs in C, as well as unions, but they are data only - no methods.

swift on April 7, 2011 [–]

Well, function pointers exist in C, though they are certainly a clumsy replacement for having methods (or first-class functions / closures / currying) built into the language.

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