On Sep 17, 2010, at 10:22 AM, Markus Roberts wrote:

> Here's a side question that may clarify something, at least for me:
> what's the intended semantics of nesting classes?  In other words,
> what does it "mean" the real world (apart from language consequences
> such as scoping / name spacing issues and implied dependencies, etc.)
> to have one class nested inside another as opposed to being siblings
> at the top level?

The only functionality I can think of is affecting the search path, which 
determines lookup of unqualified class and definition names.

I.e., no affect on variable scope at all.

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