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yoklov on March 9, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Signs that you're a bad programmer (2012)

Unfortunately, a lot of bugs can be caused when a function that was only ever intended to be used from a single place gets called from another place, when it seems to do the needed work.

TheLoneWolfling on March 9, 2015 [–]

Here's where nested function definitions can be useful.

jpindar on March 9, 2015 | [–]

That's the one thing I miss from Pascal.

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