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

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From: Barry Margolin
Date: Sat, 07 Oct 1995 09:44

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In article <1995Oct5.235012.26868@dcs.warwick.ac.uk>,
Zefram <A.Main@dcs.warwick.ac.uk> wrote:
>Simple solution: only allow nested functions to access static veriables
>of the enclosing function(s).  Easy to implement, no need for extra
>magic.

This would make functions that pass nested functions around non-reentrant.
See the qsort() example in my posting, where I mention that you'd have a
problem if the comparison procedure calls a similar sort recursively.
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Barry Margolin
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