object oriented programming

Question

Is the nesting of functions possible in the object oriented languages like C#, Java, C++ etc . If so, can anyone give an example?

Answer 1

Having nested function is irrelevant to being object-oriented.

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• C# doesn't have nested functions, but you can use lambdas (See http://stackoverflow.com/questions/576374/why-doesnt-c-have-lexically-nested-functions). So are all other programming languages that support anonymous functions (including C++0x).
• You may create a local class, and overload the call operator to simulate a nested function (See http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2256647/is-it-possible-in-c-or-c-to-create-a-function-inside-another).
• Meanwhile, many non-object-oriented languages like (the original) Pascal support nested functions natively, and GCC support it in C as an extension.

Answer 2

Implementing Nested Functions in C#.

Answer 3

As other answers have pointed out, because you can create anonymous functions in most languages these days, you can assign such a function object to a variable, and that effectively results in a local function (although recursion may be tricky).

In C++ prior to C++1x anonymous functions (known as lambdas) are not yet available. However, you can still declare a function inside a function, because you can declare a class or struct inside a function. If you make that class implement operator(), then instantiate the class and store it in a named variable, you will have effectively achieved the same as a lamda in C++1x.

The problem is that it will (a) be much more verbose and (b) it won't be permissible as an argument to a template.