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| Re: Is multi-level function return possible? marcov@toad.stack.nl (Marco van de Voort) (2014-03-14) |
| Re: Is multi-level function return possible? ian@airs.com (Ian Lance Taylor) (2014-03-14) |
| Re: Is multi-level function return possible? DrDiettrich1@aol.com (Hans-Peter Diettrich) (2014-03-15) |
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| Re: Is multi-level function return possible? anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (2014-03-16) |
| Re: Is multi-level function return possible? marcov@toad.stack.nl (Marco van de Voort) (2014-03-16) |
| Re: Is multi-level function return possible? news@cuboid.co.uk (Andy Walker) (2014-03-16) |
| Re: Is multi-level function return possible? yaldnif.w@blueyonder.co.uk (Bill Findlay) (2014-03-17) |
| Re: Is multi-level function return possible? anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (2014-03-18) |
| Re: Is multi-level function return possible? news@cuboid.co.uk (Andy Walker) (2014-03-21) |
| Re: Is multi-level function return possible? gah@ugcs.caltech.edu (glen herrmannsfeldt) (2014-03-21) |
| Re: Is multi-level function return possible? anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (2014-03-24) |
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| From: | Marco van de Voort <marcov@toad.stack.nl> |
| Newsgroups: | comp.compilers |
| Date: | Sun, 16 Mar 2014 18:39:14 +0000 (UTC) |
| Organization: | Stack Usenet News Service |
| References: | 14-03-020 14-03-022 14-03-025 14-03-030 14-03-044 |
| Keywords: | Pascal, code, history |
| Posted-Date: | 17 Mar 2014 11:03:42 EDT |
On 2014-03-16, Anton Ertl <anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at> wrote:
> Language design note: Given that nested functions have fallen out of
> favour in the Algol-family world (in C and its offspring), I wonder if
> they only really gain usefulness when combined with first-class
> closures.
It's more the rise of OOP in Pascal than need for a real closure. This
functionality was mostly used to parameterize code with other code,
something that was steered more in the direction of OOP and
inheritance/virtual methods.
Fun fact is that Turbo Pascal, while not supporting the functionality, still
used it for a generic ForEach functionality on its container type. Using
some assembler frame trickery.
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