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Subject: Re: [9fans] useful language extension, or no?
From: David Gordon Hogan <dhog@plan9.bell-labs.com>
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Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2002 14:33:18 -0400
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> Ah - I see! It hadn't realised that the scope rules now included
> that sort of nesting. When did that happen? I guess I am going to
> have to trade in my much loved, dog eared K&R for a book on
> standard C one of these days...

Nested functions are a GNU extension.  I'd recommend pretending
that they don't exist as much as feasibly possible.

I don't have that option, due to the work that I'm doing.  But, if you're
writing new code, just don't use them and everything will be fine...