>> And is it possible to do something like Pascal's nested procedures?
 ac> I presume you mean something like:
 ac> procedure wrapper;
 ac>   procedure inside;
 ac>   begin
 ac>     writeln('Hello from the inside.');
 ac>   end;
 ac> begin
 ac>   writeln('Hello world.');
 ac> end;
 ac> C doesn't support silly stuff like this.  I'm not sure if it's
 ac> standard Pascal either. (?)

 sp>  It's not silly.  Quite useful actually...  And your 
 sp> not wasting an extra segment to access the parent 

From a language point of view I think it's a bit silly.  I find nested
procedures are often difficult to read.

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