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From: SJohnson.ElSegundo@XEROX.COM
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Are Class Decl.'s Legal in Funcs ?
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Date: 3 Apr 89 22:03:57 GMT
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Is the following code legal ?  Since C/C++ doesn't allow lexical nesting of
functions, I'd be inclined to believe that having My_Class::doit() inside
func would be a no-no.

As it turns out, Oregon Software's occ will compile and run the example
below, while Gnu's g++ (version 1.32.0) goes into some kind of infinite
loop during compilation.


Swen Johnson
SJohnson.ElSegundo@Xerox.COM

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#include <stream.h>

void func() {
	class My_Class {
		int var;
		public:
			void doit() {
				var = 1;
				cout << "var = " << var << "\n";
				};
			};
	My_Class my_object;
	my_object.doit();
	};

main () {
	func();
	};
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