On Tue, Mar 22, 2022 at 06:17:50PM +0100, Rhialto wrote:
> On Sun 20 Mar 2022 at 23:17:57 -0400, Mouse wrote:
> > clang is - or at least was last I checked - under the impression that
> > nested functions are little-used and thus are not worth supporting.
>
> I guess they can think so because
On Fri, 25 Mar 2022 at 10:03, Reinoud Zandijk wrote:
> > I guess they can think so because nested functions are a gcc extension.
> > Quite a useful one, I think, having been taught programming with Algol
> > 68 which of course does have nested functions; but an extension
> > nevertheless.
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On Thu, Mar 24, 2022 at 11:16:58PM -0400, Mouse wrote:
> > The conclusion over the past ~25 years has been that there isn't;
> > qsort and things like it work "well enough" and real uses for
> > closures that really motivate the feature come up rarely enough that
> > it doesn't happen.
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