How Nested Functions Work, part 1

[language_fan]

Sun, 30 Aug 2009 14:34:36 -0700, Walter Bright thusly wrote:

> http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/9fk6g/
how_nested_functions_work_part_1/

This seems more like an advertisement of D than practical new information 
for compiler construction. Nesting functions is the basic feature of 
functional languages. Moreover even procedural Algol based languages such 
as Pascal have always supported them, too. This information is also 
taught in basic university level compiler courses.

Now that I checked what wikipedia had to say to the matter, it also 
seemed to mention D. Apparently 'c-like syntax' plus 'advanced feature 
<foo>' always equals 'innovation'.