Treating statement sequences as block objects

Authors:
Hanspeter Mössenböck
Affiliations:
-
Venue:
ACM SIGPLAN Notices
Year:
1992

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Abstract

We propose a language construct for treating statement sequences as block objects that can be passed to procedures as arguments. Block objects are well known from Smalltalk but are not available in most other languages. We show how to implement block objects efficiently.