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From: Robert A Duff <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com>
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Subject: Re: Teaching new tricks to an old dog (C++ -->Ada)
Date: 13 Mar 2005 18:38:26 -0500
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Kilgallen@SpamCop.net (Larry Kilgallen) writes:

> In article <wccu0ng6hie.fsf@shell01.TheWorld.com>, Robert A Duff <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com> writes:
> > 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.
> 
> Yes, I just said Pascal had that.

Oh, sorry, I must have thought you said "...in addition to what Pascal
has..." or something.  My bad.

Anyway, nested functions are really nested in any useful sense if you
can't do uplevel addressing, right?

- Bob