Lambda the Ultimate

(via Ars Technica's review of Mac OS X 10.6)

Apple's version of GCC in Snow Leopard, its new operating system, has a C extension that looks like closures. I'm not sure whether to be marveled that C programs will get lambdas, or appalled that someone will have to figure out manual memory allocation bugs in these. It seems like Apple is moving towards LLVM for its compiler toolchain, and I imagine this extension requires the use of LLVM.