Apple Blocks added to C++?

[Walter Bright]

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 ;)

Perhaps they would, but I think they would agree that a nested function 
should follow the same syntax as a regular function.


> 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.

For C++0x it's unnecessarily complicated - and they still don't have 
just plain old nested functions. C has no nested functions.