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 | | In code generation domains, an important feature of the HOF stars is that they add no run-time overhead at all, since they self-destruct before code generation begins, and therefore do not appear in any form in the generated code. |
 | | In functional languages, there is no syntactic difference between a function argument that is a data value, one that is a stream (an infinite sequence of data values), and one that is a function. |
 | | Although in principle such higher-order functions can be designed in Ptolemy, their behavior would not be independent of their domain, so the HOF domain would be the wrong place for them. |
| ptolemy.eecs.berkeley.edu /ptolemyclassic/almagest/docs/micro/html/hof.doc1.html (645 words) |
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