[Oberon] Life without local procedures

[Claudio Nieder]

Hi,

> BTW, I finally found a solution for local methods in Java:
> 
> While it is not possible to declare methods within methods, it is
> actually possible to declare local classes within methods. Therefore, I
> declared a local class with my "local" methods and then created a single
> instance of the local class to invoke them. Since methods within the
> local class can also access variables declared in the surrounding
> method, this allows for access to "intermediate" variables.
> 
> While this seems weird at first sight, it is actually quite logical: in
> Java every method belongs to a class; thus, one can not just add new
> methods within a limited scope, but needs a separate class to collect them.

Maybe nicer using functions:

package test;

import java.util.function.Function;

public class Global
{
 public static void main(final String[] a)
 {
  final int i=5;
  final Function<Integer,Integer> q=x -> {
   return x*i;
  };
  System.out.println(q.apply(7));
 }
}

claudio
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