functions within functions

[Dave P. Schaumann]

In article <1991Jan22.081057.8567 at ithaca.uucp> garry at ithaca.uucp (Garry Wiegand) writes:
|When the C standards committee was meeting, did they discuss allowing 
|the declaration of functions within functions? Ie, making:
|
|    void outside(void) { 
|    	static void inside(void) {}
|       	inside(); 
|    }
|
|count as legal C? Neither my quasi-Ansi C nor my g++ compiler will
|accept it.

C has never allowed nested function definitions.  I don't know for sure why,
but I would guess (given that C is intended for generating clean, fast code)
that they didn't want to get involved with closures.

|Garry Wiegand    ---    Ithaca Software, Alameda, California
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