RE: good books on scheme?

["Paul A. Steckler" <steck@cs.rice.edu>]

> However, some compilers (like
>earlier versions of gcc; don't know if they still do this) did allow you do
>it, but with one big caveat:

Yes, that extension is still around.  The gcc manual 
succinctly explains the limitations of this mechanism:

> If you try to call the nested function through its address after the
> containing function has exited, all hell will break loose.

-- Paul

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