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nested procedures (Miscellaneous)

posted by marcov, 03.03.2020, 10:16

> > More complex cases of accessing parent parameters with multiple levels
> and
> > recursion (basically writing a recursive descent parser as nested procs)
> > was said to be big dividing line.
>
> Oberon-07 has simpler data support in nested procedures: (only) strictly
> local or strictly global. AFAIK, this is comparable to standard C (not GCC
> extensions). It's one of many simplifications made in that dialect. It
> presumably does simplify stack management quite a bit. I know you disregard
> Oberon overall, but ....

Yes, proves again its uselessness, even TP can do better.

But as I said in OO languages it might be used less, since your method variables (aka function pointers) already have some context, and less local functions are used, since methods in general share context via the object.

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