From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,703c4f68db81387d X-Google-Thread: 109fba,703c4f68db81387d X-Google-Thread: 115aec,703c4f68db81387d X-Google-Thread: f43e6,703c4f68db81387d X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,gid109fba,gid115aec,gidf43e6,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsread.com!news-xfer.newsread.com!newspeer.monmouth.com!newsswitch.lcs.mit.edu!nntp.TheWorld.com!not-for-mail From: Robert A Duff Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c++,comp.realtime,comp.software-eng Subject: Re: Teaching new tricks to an old dog (C++ -->Ada) Date: 12 Mar 2005 09:55:21 -0500 Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA Message-ID: References: <4229bad9$0$1019$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au> <1110377260.350158.58730@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: shell01-e.theworld.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: pcls4.std.com 1110639323 29368 69.38.147.31 (12 Mar 2005 14:55:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@TheWorld.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2005 14:55:23 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:9237 comp.lang.c++:45297 comp.realtime:1369 comp.software-eng:4929 Date: 2005-03-12T09:55:21-05:00 List-Id: Kilgallen@SpamCop.net (Larry Kilgallen) writes: > Even Bliss has nested functions. What Ada has that Pascal has in addition > to nested functions is uplevel addressing, allowing an inner function to > access data declared in outer scopes. Heh? Pascal has that. In fact, practically every programming language outside the C family has this feature. It's quite useful -- almost essential in multi-threaded programs. - Bob