Apple Blocks added to C++?

[Tim M]

Nick Sabalausky Wrote:

> "Walter Bright" <newshound1 at digitalmars.com> wrote in message 
> news:h7l32i$ev$1 at digitalmars.com...
> > S. wrote:
> >> I was wondering what other people thought about this addition to C++ by 
> >> Apple.   Heh.
> >>
> >> http://arstechnica.com/apple/reviews/2009/08/mac-os-x-10-6.ars/10
> >
> >
> > I find it strange that people are continuing to reinvent nested functions 
> > in ugly ways.
> 
> No offense, but Ruby and Python users would probably get a good chuckle at 
> hearing the D creator saying that ;)
> 
> But in the case of C/C++, I consider it a minor miracle that they were able 
> to pull it off without making it 10x uglier than what they actually ended up 
> with.
> 
> 

Walter: may I ask with this, reddit posts and dobb's code post, why the interest in this particular topic right now? Didn't you implement this a long time ago?