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From: gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.std.c
Subject: Re: functions within functions
Message-ID: <14947@smoke.brl.mil>
Date: 23 Jan 91 23:23:32 GMT
References: <1991Jan22.081057.8567@ithaca.uucp>
Organization: U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory, APG, MD.
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In article <1991Jan22.081057.8567@ithaca.uucp> garry@ithaca.uucp (Garry Wiegand) writes:
>When the C standards committee was meeting, did they discuss allowing 
>the declaration of functions within functions?

It was proposed, but since X3J11 was not trying to invent lots of
features, but rather just standardize existing practice, there was
little support for the proposal.