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From: fjh@munta.cs.mu.OZ.AU (Fergus Henderson)
Subject: Re: friends and local classes
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swillden@fcom.cc.utah.edu (Shawn Willden) wrote:
>>
>> Just make a local class with a static function if you need a local function.
>> 
>> void functionWithLocalFunction() {
>>     struct Local {
>> 	int static compare(const void* a, const void* b) { ... };
>>     };
>> 
>>     //...
>>     qsort(array, sizeof(array)/sizeof(array[0]), sizeof(array),
>>           &Local::compare);
>>     }

If it's that easy, why can't the compiler do it automatically?

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Fergus Henderson - fjh@munta.cs.mu.oz.au
all [L] (programming_language(L), L \= "Mercury") => better("Mercury", L) ;-)