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From: kevin@cbmvax.UUCP (Kevin Klop)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Can you nest subroutines in C?
Message-ID: <7200@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: 3 Jul 89 05:45:58 GMT
References: <4525@crash.cts.com>
Reply-To: kevin@cbmvax.UUCP (Kevin Klop)
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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In article <4525@crash.cts.com> wade@pnet01.cts.com (Wade Bickel) writes:
>        Besides, as I have already pointed out, static variables do not cut it
>as they will not generate a new level of locals on a recursive call.  The
>whole point of nesting is to create an autonomous sub-environment which can
>be called recursively forces such an environment to be restricted to a
>single routine.
>
>
>
>                                                        Thanks,
>
>
>                                                                Wade.

Wade, if you wish to declare a variable that is local to a function
for recursive calls, then:

MyRecursiveFunction()
{
	char AVariableThatIsInstantiatedEachTimeThisFunctionIsCalled;

	.
	.
	,
};

Does it.  Am I misunderstanding your question?

As to Modula-2 vs. C, I too wish to avoid that sort of discussion. :^)

                  -- Kevin --

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