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Looks like your Pascal knowledge is lacking

Looks like your Pascal knowledge is lacking

Posted Jul 18, 2008 11:20 UTC (Fri) by nix (subscriber, #2304)
In reply to: Looks like your Pascal knowledge is lacking by giraffedata
Parent article: What Red Hat and Firestar agreed to

Actually nested functions aren't valid in C. They're a GCC extension, and 
while I might wish they were in the Standard (give us closures, too, 
please!) they're not.


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