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Lawrence Kirby <fred@genesis.demon.co.uk> writes:

>In article <1995Sep22.171416.1574@ittpub> wil@ittpub.nl "Wil Evers" writes:

>>All languages that allow a nested procedure to access the local variables  
>>of the enclosing procedure(s) and use lexical scoping have this problem.  

>Function nesting can be useful for scoping even when local variables of
>enclosing functions are no accessible. If I remember correctly this is
>what BCPL supported. It is a shame that C threw this facility away.

Hey Lawrence...

I completely agree with you that C would have been nice with nested
functions. On a stack-based machine, implementation of the scoping
can be easily done, looking up the call of stack frames.

In C++, the namespace facility comes close.

Best regards,
Derick.

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