Blocks in g++ ?

[Per Bothner]

Joern Rennecke <amylaar@cygnus.co.uk> writes:
> > argument to a function. the special bit about blocks is that they are
> > executed by the called function, but they are parsed in the context of 
> > where they are defined. so you have access to local variables etc...
> 
> Look in extend.texi for 'Nested Functions' .

It is worth pointing out that blocks, if implemented as lexical closures
as is the de facto Smalltalk standard, are much more powerful than Gcc's
nested functions, since the latter do *not* create proper closures.
(Creating closures is probably not practical unless you have garbage
collection.)
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