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From: hoelzle@polya.Stanford.EDU (Urs Hoelzle)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.modula2
Subject: Re: Are procedure types breaking modules?
Keywords: procedure types, modules
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Date: 25 Apr 89 15:55:11 GMT
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Sender: Urs Hoelzle <hoelzle@polya.Stanford.EDU>
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>are not allowed.  Why is it that you are not allowed to assign a
>local procedure to a procedure variable ? 

If you assign a local procedure to a procedure variable and if this
procedure accesses (local) variables of the enclosing procedure(s),
you will get into trouble when calling it because the activation
records of the enclosing procedures do not exist. 

-Urs