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From: panzer@grape.ucsb.edu (Panzer, John Robert)
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Subject: Re: Can you nest subroutines in C?
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Date: 28 Jun 89 21:33:27 GMT
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In article <14753@watdragon.waterloo.edu> sjorr@rose.waterloo.edu (Stephen Orr) writes:
>In article <4470@crash.cts.com> wade@pnet01.cts.com (Wade Bickel) writes:
>>    I hope there is a way to create nested functions in C.  In general I find
>>I like C.  Especially the flexability of conditionals afforded in pointer
>>manipulations, which is much more powerful than that allowed in Modula-2.
>
>	Unless someone changed the definition of C that I learnt, all 
>modules in 'C' have the same visibility even main(). This does not mean you
>can't get your peice of code running, it just means that the sub-module you
>would place with a larger module will be visible to all modules in the program.

In fact, if you declare a function (or a variable external to a function)
to be static, it will be local to the source file but global to all functions
within that file.  This provides some degree of modularity, although
it does require that each module be in a separate source file.
 
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