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From: Brian Rogoff <bpr@shell5.ba.best.com>
Subject: Re: Function Calls by Address
Date: 1999/09/04
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On Fri, 3 Sep 1999, Robert Dewar wrote:
> In article <37CFFEA6.921CBE59@magic.fr>,
>   Francois Godme <fgodme@magic.fr> wrote:
> > I knew about the nested procedures restriction but thought
> > that no one still uses nested procedures.
> 
> An amazingly narrow thought. It is true that people who don't
> have them (who use languages starting with the letter C) don't

As a sometime Caml programmer, I assure you that we have them, and that 
they are even more powerful there than in Ada, since we can pass them 
down and even up. Be careful about branding all of us who use languages 
with names beginning with a "C". I hope the Common Lisp and Component 
Pascal folks aren't offended either :-)

-- Brian