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- From: nau@ssesco.com (William Nau)
- Newsgroups: comp.std.c++
- Subject: Re: Nested functions (was: Re: Zero-length structures and pointer comparisons)
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- Date: 15 Dec 92 20:16:15 GMT
- References: <9234601.10277@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU> <1992Dec11.231131.10956@microsoft.com> <24392@alice.att.com> <1992Dec12.162211.5076@ucc.su.OZ.AU> <24400@alice.att.com> <9235019.15484@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU> <24413@alice.att.com>
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- >> Why are nested functions so hard? I think that
- >> Gnu C's implementation of nested functions shows that it does not
- >> cause any particularly difficult implementation problems.
- >
- >The first time I tried to use gcc's nested functions,
- >my program dumped core -- apparently due to a bug in gcc.
- >The next version of gcc I tried worked. This suggests
- >that the implementation isn't exactly trivial.
-
- It suggests that they didn't properly test that release. Given
- a decent design, it's not asking that much out of a high level
- language. It does amaze me that this wonderful object oriented
- language does not allow for nested functions.
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