"Jean-Pierre Rosen" <rosen.adalog@wanadoo.fr> writes:
> Ray Blaak <blaak@infomatch.com> a ��crit dans le message :
> m3iu6tjw2d.fsf@vault83.infomatch.bc.ca...
> I find it a bit unfair to blame Ada for these restrictions. C++, Eiffel,
> Java have no embedded subprograms.

C++ does allow you to declare a derived class inside a function,
including new member functions. This only affects visibility, but
sometimes that's what you want.