[Tutor] nested functions

[Sean 'Shaleh' Perry]

On 09-Apr-2002 Cameron Stoner wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Is it a good or bad idea to call functions with in functions?  What could you
> do to not have functions calling functions? I have given an example of this
> bellow.
> 

functions are an important building block, nothing wrong with functions calling
functions calling more functions.

now DEFINING nested functions can be messy:

def foo(item):
  def bar(that):
      print that

  bar(item)