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Re: Nested Functions in C++

From: Joe Buck <Joe dot Buck at synopsys dot COM>
To: Gabriel Dos Reis <gdr at cs dot tamu dot edu>
Cc: Mark Mitchell <mark at codesourcery dot com>,"Steven L. Zook" <SLZook at Qualstar dot com>, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
Date: Sat, 23 Oct 2004 01:06:35 -0700
Subject: Re: Nested Functions in C++
References: <9E27B4AB55478346B9F7848926E49B7F4F729A@exchange1.qualstar.com> <41795308.3070002@codesourcery.com> <20041022123000.A22016@synopsys.com> <m3y8hy82cn.fsf@merlin.cs.tamu.edu>

On Fri, Oct 22, 2004 at 11:50:32PM -0500, Gabriel Dos Reis wrote:
> | [ auto ]
> | I want that!  I wanted it years ago.
> 
> And it was implemented in Cfront as early as 1983; it was removed, when
> some users considered it to be going too far.  Seems like we're back
> to the future :-)

But there were no templates and no STL then, so we didn't have massive
type names to deal with.  It wasn't needed then, it is needed now.

References:
- Nested Functions in C++
  - From: Steven L. Zook
- Re: Nested Functions in C++
  - From: Mark Mitchell
- Re: Nested Functions in C++
  - From: Joe Buck
- Re: Nested Functions in C++
  - From: Gabriel Dos Reis

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