[jvanenk]

A friend of mine wrote something up on this technique a while ago: http://spin.atomicobject.com/2012/11/01/hey-c-is-a-functiona...

[apgwoz]

Isn't this just a simplified version of Cheney on the MTA? (http://home.pipeline.com/~hbaker1/CheneyMTA.html)

[justinhj]

The book Modern Compiler Implementation in C has a very functional style, written in 1997

[silentbicycle]

There are editions of the book using ML and Java. Since Andrew Appel is involved with SML/NJ, the ML edition is most likely the original. (The ML one is also quite good.)

[adamnemecek]

OT but I've never seen anyone write semicolons that way in C.

[jonhohle]

Commas?

Personally, I'm never a fan of punctuation first formatting styles - though I give some exception for dot (.) first method calls in fluent interfaces for C-family languages.

    someInterface
       .thatCan()
       .chain()
       .itsCalls();

[adamnemecek]

Yeah, commas.