Path: csiph.com!news.swapon.de!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Tim Rentsch Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: Threads across programming languages Date: Wed, 15 May 2024 08:53:36 -0700 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 12 Message-ID: <868r0brrzz.fsf@linuxsc.com> References: <20240503180102.00002f98@yahoo.com> <20240505123718.00000503@yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Injection-Date: Wed, 15 May 2024 17:53:37 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="43a77f51a07bd525f985674c7a7a947d"; logging-data="1018894"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19K/ocil9kMnizv6NWcxWCoMeu8RY61vn4=" User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.4 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:smWkEE+pNQSc2E9G09cIpU8Kxb8= sha1:UQDnzQS+0EyC48UPdcSnakh/CQg= Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.c:384586 Lawrence D'Oliveiro writes: > On Sun, 5 May 2024 12:37:18 +0300, Michael S wrote: > >> As a code reader, I very much prefer C, where nested function are not >> allowed at all. > > The GNU C compiler allows them: see my example in the ?Recursion, Yo? > thread. gcc accepts all sorts of things that aren't C. That doesn't make them part of the C language.