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From: hearn@claris.com (Bob Hearn)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: Are Class Decl.'s Legal in Funcs ?
Message-ID: <9418@claris.com>
Date: 4 Apr 89 00:31:50 GMT
References: <890403-150348-4532@Xerox>
Organization: Claris Corporation, Mountain View CA
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From article <890403-150348-4532@Xerox>, by SJohnson.ElSegundo@XEROX.COM:
> 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
> 
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------
> #include <stream.h>
> 
> void func() {
> 	class My_Class {
[etc.]

I don't know about classes nested in functions, but classes nested in
classes are legal - except they don't mean what you think they do.  Their
scope is global.  This is VERY ANNOYING.  The one thing I hate most about
C is lack of nested scoping.

Bob Hearn
hearn@claris.com