Nested functions in C (was: Understanding Packages)

[Tim Writer]

"Lennart Sorensen" <lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org> writes:

> 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. :)

Perhaps you're thinking of something like this:

    void foo()
    {
        class bar {
        public:
            static void baz()
            {
                /* something */
            }
        };

        /* Invoked "nested function". */
        bar::baz();
    }

which is legal C++.

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