[Tutor] stuck with html table

Remco Gerlich scarblac@pino.selwerd.nl
Wed, 30 May 2001 15:24:37 +0200


On  0, Eugene Leitl <Eugene.Leitl@lrz.uni-muenchen.de> wrote:
> On Wed, 30 May 2001 alan.gauld@bt.com wrote:
> 
> > Indented def? Implies you are on 2.1 since nested
> > functions are iffy (IMHO) in earlier versions...
> 
> Yep, and thanks for reminding me. Result will have
> to run on 1.5.2, so I have to change it then.

Nested functions like you do them here are perfectly ok in old versions.

The problems come when the function tries to use a variable from the
function in which it was defined - that wasn't possible in older versions
(this is "nested scoping"). But since you don't do that, it's perfectly ok.

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Remco Gerlich