From: James Coglan <jcoglan@...>
Date: 2009-03-21T00:10:17+09:00
Subject: Re: nested methods

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2009/3/20 Leo <minilith@gmail.com>

> > Depends what you mean by nesting, which was supposed to be my point --
> that
> > the methods are lexically nested but not dynamically nested.
>
> I don't think I understand what you mean with "lexically nested" here.
> The point is that the inner method replaces the outer one. Nothing
> else. Maybe we could call that stacked methods or whatever. But since
> the inner method cannot refer to local variables of the outer method
> the word nested IMHO simply makes no sense.



I meant 'lexically' as in the methods are syntactically nested. You're
right, since methods are not closures it makes no sense to talk of them as
being nested/stacked/whatever when talking about how the code is executed,
they are nested in appearance only.

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