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From: marti@ethz.UUCP (Robert Marti)
Newsgroups: comp.object,comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: Re^2: Continuations
Message-ID: <2667@ethz.UUCP>
Date: 29 Nov 89 13:27:38 GMT
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In article <34657@cornell.UUCP>, murthy@alsvid.cs.cornell.edu (Chet Murthy)
writes:
| peterd@cs.washington.edu (Peter C. Damron) writes:
| > C and C++ are definitely "lexically  scoped".
|
| Yes, they are, but they don't provide support for closures as
| first-class objects (the funarg problem).  So they don't provide
| "full" support for lexical scoping.  Scheme/ML do.

Indeed, C and C++ do not even allow a procedure to be declared local to
another procedure.  Maybe nesting is not only for the birds, after all  ;-)

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