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On Sat, 29 Aug 1998 13:55:27 -0400, Art Nelson <art@vineyard.net>
wrote:

>My understanding is that Java does not support local procedures.  I have
>found local procedures are really handy because they allow you to beak
>up a procedure with out cluttering up the rest of the program.

Strictly speaking, Java doesn't have procedures at all. Everything is
based on a class model, and all "procedures" are in fact methods of a
class, so the notion of nested procedures isn't applicable. JDK 1.1
introduced the idea of "inner classes" (classes defined wholly within
another class), and these inner classes have characteristics that are
in some way analogous to nested procedures in other languages.

-Steve