Re: [Tutor] Is nesting functions only for data hiding overkill?

2019-08-21 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 22Aug2019 00:53, James Hartley wrote: Yes, nesting functions is valuable & necessary for closures and wrapping functions for creating properties. But is nesting, simply for hiding data, a preferred solution? I have a number of member functions which are prefaced with underscores pointing ou

[Tutor] Is nesting functions only for data hiding overkill?

2019-08-21 Thread James Hartley
Yes, nesting functions is valuable & necessary for closures and wrapping functions for creating properties. But is nesting, simply for hiding data, a preferred solution? I have a number of member functions which are prefaced with underscores pointing out that they should not be called by client c

[Tutor] Is nesting functions only for data hiding overkill?

2019-08-21 Thread James Hartley
Yes, nesting functions is valuable & necessary for closures and wrapping functions for creating properties. But is nesting, simply for hiding data, a preferred solution? I have a number of member functions which are prefaced with underscores pointing out that they should not _