From help-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Mon Dec 23 15:05:19 2002
Subject: Re: Editing files, indexing operations...
From: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
To: James Frye <frye at cs dot unr dot edu>
Cc: pkienzle at users dot sourceforge dot net, help-octave@bevo.che.wisc.edu
Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2002 15:04:37 -0600

There was a short discussion about nested functions back in August.
For example, take a look at 

  http://www.octave.org/octave-lists/archive/help-octave.2002/msg00553.html

and

  http://www.octave.org/octave-lists/archive/help-octave.2002/msg00557.html

I am still interested in implementing something like this if we can
decide what is best for Octave.

So, how should nested/local functions behave?  Are we constrained to
the more limited way that Matlab handles nested functions, or can we
have real nested functions (i.e., multiple levels of nesting, not just
one) without causing a compatibility problem?

jwe



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