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nau@ssesco.com (William Nau) writes:

>>> Why are nested functions so hard? I think that 
>>> Gnu C's implementation of nested functions shows that it does not
>>> cause any particularly difficult implementation problems.
>>
[Koenig replied]
>>The first time I tried to use gcc's nested functions,
>>my program dumped core -- apparently due to a bug in gcc.
>>The next version of gcc I tried worked.  This suggests
>>that the implementation isn't exactly trivial.

>It suggests that they didn't properly test that release.  Given
>a decent design, it's not asking that much out of a high level
>language.  It does amaze me that this wonderful object oriented
>language does not allow for nested functions.

What can nested functions do that OO features of C++ can't? Use
of nested functions sounds like you may be trying to delegate
implementation, which is a great use for objects.



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