Apple Blocks added to C++?

[Martin Franhaufer]

Walter Bright Wrote:

> 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.
> 
> 


Yes - Pascal has been doing that for years :-)


> > 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.