Nested routines as values?

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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro, Waikato Uni...
Date: Sat, 19 Jan 1991 02:19

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I heard a rumour from a colleague that the Modula-2 standards people were
considering allowing routines declared within other routines to be
passed as values of PROCEDURE types. Can anybody tell me if this is true?

I think it's a good idea, unless it means that PROCEDURE values become
descriptors, instead of straight addresses. If that's the case, it's
going to make it very cumbersome to interface to non-Modula-2 code.

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From: ldo@waikato.ac.nz (Lawrence D'Oliveiro, Waikato University)
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Subject: Nested routines as values?
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Date: 19 Jan 91 02:19:18 GMT
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