How Nested Functions Work, part 1

[Rainer Deyke]

Michiel Helvensteijn wrote:
> I still find it silly that it was built that way. Seems to me you should be
> able to forward-reference *any* symbol that has a value that can't change
> over its lifetime. Functions, const/immutable vars, typedefs, classes, etc.

That can lead to subtle problems in the case of functions:

int i = f();
int f() { return i; }


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