Re: Nested functions (was: Re: GOTO single exit point)

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From: John Bickers
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 1995 05:36

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Quoted from <dqua.811915828@dqua> by dqua@earthlink.net (Derick J.R. Qua-Gonzalez):

> I completely agree with you that C would have been nice with nested
> functions. On a stack-based machine, implementation of the scoping

    I disagree with the trend of this. Nested functions were one of
    the things I was glad to leave behind with Pascal. IMHO it
    encourages the growth of function size and increases the
    complexity of thinking about such a function, both of which are
    undesirable.

> Derick.
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Subject: Re: Nested functions (was: Re: GOTO single exit point)
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From: jbickers@templar.actrix.gen.nz (John Bickers)
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Date: Thu, 28 Sep 95 17:36:44 +1200
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