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Re:Pascal at Apple by bbrik on Saturday July 22, 2017 @06:36AM (#14826423)
C# has just implemented nested functions.
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Re:Pascal at Apple by kwhitefoot on Sunday July 23, 2017 @04:10AM (#14831357)
There is a nice blog post that concisely explains why local functions are better than lambdas: https://asizikov.github.io/2016/04/15/thoughts-on-local-func...
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Re:Pascal at Apple by WalterBright on Sunday July 23, 2017 @08:08PM (#14835062)
C#: "Local functions can not be static."

Static nested (i.e. local) functions in D can be static. What that does is prevent the function for accessing locals in the enclosing scope(s).

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