[Info-vax] First ship poll: When will the first native x86-64 compilers ship ?

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On Wednesday, April 13, 2022 at 9:23:42 PM UTC-7, Dave Froble wrote:
> On 4/13/2022 10:10 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote: 
> > On 4/13/2022 8:43 PM, Dave Froble wrote: 
> >> On 4/13/2022 6:39 PM, Single Stage to Orbit wrote: 
> >>> On Wed, 2022-04-13 at 14:42 -0400, Arne Vajhøj wrote: 
> >>>> You forgot Pascal! 
> >>> 
> >>> Nice language, it must be the only one I'm aware of that allows nested 
> >>> procedures and functions. I've not met another programming language 
> >>> that allows that. 
> >> 
> >> Can you better define nested functions? Then I can decide if Basic allows such. 
> > 
> > Functions declared inside functions (and therefore only available 
> > inside the declaring function). 
> > 
> > Arne 
> >
> Ok, what is so neat about that? 
> 
> I cannot see the point, when if one wants to use a second function inside a 
> first function, another external function should be callable. Haven't tried it 
> recently. Maybe I should. Perhaps I should know what I'm talking about at 
> least once a year. 
> 
> But I can see no reason to have a function defined inside another function.

I've used this a few times in php and perl. It's useful for very local functions, e.g. some kind of local string mashing over a set of strings.