C Advanced: Nesting functions

No, you can’t.

We can’t define functions inside other functions in C.

With languages like JavaScript, Swift or Python it is pretty common to use nested functions.

C and C++ do not provide this option.

Your next best option is to put the functions you need to perform something in a separate file, and only expose the primary function a client program needs to use, so you can “hide” all the things that does not need to be public.

Lessons in this unit:

0: Introduction
1: Input and output
2: Variable scope
3: Static variables
4: Global variables
5: Type definitions
6: Enumerations
7: Structures
8: Command line parameters
9: Header files
10: The preprocessor
11: NULL values
12: Boolean values
13: ▶︎ Nesting functions
14: Conversion specifiers
15: Using quotes
16: String length
17: Returning strings
18: Array length
19: Looping through arrays
20: Checking character values
21: Printing percentage signs
22: Troubleshooting: Implicit function declarations

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