Block Closure

[Henry Spencer]

> ... If we use indentation,
> there is the problem of following the indentation 20 or 50 or 100 lines; in
> addition, this greatly limits the number of hierarchical levels...

At risk of starting another flame war, if this is a problem, the function in
question is too complex and should be split up into more manageable pieces.
If efficiency demands avoiding function calls, the integration of the pieces
into a single function should be done mechanically, either by the compiler
or by a special-purpose source-transformation tool, so the programmer can
continue to deal with the cleanly-partitioned version.
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