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On 16.10.14 17:10, Luke A. Guest wrote:
> Brian Drummond <brian3@shapes.demon.co.uk> wrote:

>> That was the DragonEgg project, wasn't it? I got the impression it
>> foundered on some shortcoming of LLVM for non-C languages; not certain
>> which, but possibly the one regarding nested functions that Tristan has
>> overcome with ghdl.
>
> No, DragonEgg was the plugin that followed, think that's dead also.
>
> But you're right, the nested function thing was a problem but I'm certain
> Duncan said he was working will llvm way back to sort it out. Don't know
> how far it got.

Apple's Swift language is using LLVM, and it has nested functions.
In fact, closures. Maybe this support can be stripped down to Ada's needs?