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I knew about nested classes but hadn't thought of them in the context of
local
procedures because I thought they would be overly complicated to use.  I can
imagine the power though.

Thanks for the input.

Art

Steve Schafer (TeamB) wrote:

> 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