Partial application in C

[Chris Torek]

>It's easy to provide partial application and first class procedures
>using a heap (especially with garbage collection). It's not really necessary
>modify instruction space to do this.

True enough.  The modified I-space will be faster, though, at least if
the newly created procedures are called often.  There is no particular
reason that OSes should not have calls to create a new chunk of I-space
(or get rid of an old one), except that the demand for it has been low.
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