Nested functions in C (was: Understanding Packages)

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 04:07:03PM -0400, Henry Spencer wrote:
> Nope, nested functions aren't legal in C++ either.
> 
> They *are* legal in Pascal and a number of other languages.  Note that the
> early GNU folks, by and large, did not come from a Unix/C background and
> consequently felt some of the limitations of C more than experienced C
> programmers did.  Several of their non-standard extensions came out of
> wanting to make C look a bit more like the languages they grew up on. 

Hmm, I really must have used a few weird languages then.  I was pretty
sure I had done nested functions in C++ before, but it sure can't have
been a standard one (or even g++ by the looks of it).  Maybe my memory
is mixed up with all the pascal code I did many many years ago, or maybe
stuff from Lisp, ML or some other nice language. :)

Lennart Sorensen
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