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In article <9300811.3521@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU> fjh@munta.cs.mu.OZ.AU (Fergus James HENDERSON) writes:

> The classic
> sort of example where nested functions are useful is

  [Example of passing a function pointer to qsort deleted]

> Because the interface to qsort() is fixed, the alternative is to use a rather
> ugly hack using global variables (well, ok, you can make them file-scope
> static variables rather than real global variables).

Correct; that's just where nested function would be nice.

And note that encapsulating compare() in some class is not a solution:
qsort expects its argument to be a function pointer, not a member
function pointer.
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