CAN WE DEFINE ANY FUNCTION WITHIN A FUNCTION.

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CAN WE DEFINE ANY FUNCTION WITHIN A FUNCTION...

Answer / vignesh1988i

no we cant define a function within a function.... but calling of function within a function is possible........

thank u

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CAN WE DEFINE ANY FUNCTION WITHIN A FUNCTION...

Answer / prof.gagandeep jagdev

No, it is not possible to define any function within a
function. However we can call a function from within
another function.

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CAN WE DEFINE ANY FUNCTION WITHIN A FUNCTION...

Answer / aparna

no....we cant define a function with in another
fn......Insteadwe can declare a function..
ex:
void main()
{
int fun(int); // this is declaration
fun(3); // this is fn. calling
}

int fun(int a) //this is fn.definition
{

}

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CAN WE DEFINE ANY FUNCTION WITHIN A FUNCTION...

Answer / shailender

We can do nesting of functions. I tried in GCC.
check this keyword auto does the magic.

int main()

{

func1();

}

func1()

{

int i = 0;

auto func2()

{

i = 10;

printf("Heloo i am func 2\n");

}

printf("Heloo i am func 1\n");

}

However it seems to me that there is no use of doing this
if you want to call func2 you can't do it from out side func1.

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CAN WE DEFINE ANY FUNCTION WITHIN A FUNCTION...

Answer / chandan patel

absolutely no......
u can't do this....u can only declared and call a function
inside a function....

i m appealing to those people who r saying 'yes' that please
don't misguide other....if u don't know correct stuff.

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CAN WE DEFINE ANY FUNCTION WITHIN A FUNCTION...

Answer / blaaze

hey guys pls dont misguide......
the correct ans is "no" , we cant define a function within another.

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CAN WE DEFINE ANY FUNCTION WITHIN A FUNCTION...

Answer / vinod kumari

No, we can not define a function within another function.
we can only declare and call any function in any other
function.

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CAN WE DEFINE ANY FUNCTION WITHIN A FUNCTION...

Answer / nimish salve

yes it is possible to define a function inside function.but only in optimized compiler like GCC,DEV C and not in turbo c,visual c++.

try this code

#include<stdio.h>
void fun1(void)//function definition 1
{
printf("Inside fun1\n");
void fun2(void)//function definition for 2nd function
{
printf("Inside fun2\n");
}
fun2();//function call
}
int main()
{
printf("Inside Main\n");
fun1();//function call
return 0;
}

try in both GCC and TurboC and get your answer

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CAN WE DEFINE ANY FUNCTION WITHIN A FUNCTION...

Answer / shiva

No.
in g++ you will be clearly notified that you can't define a
function inside another function
but gcc somehow allows following

#include <stdio.h>

int func2(int (*f)()){
(*f)();
return 0;
}
int main ()
{
int func1 ()
{
printf ("\n Inside func 1 ");
return 0;
}
printf("someting");
func1 (); //you can access this fuction inside
main(the function in which you declared func1) with the name
func1
func2(func1); // to access this function outside use
fucntion pointer as a argument
return 0;
}

o/p:
something
Inside func 1
Inside func 1

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CAN WE DEFINE ANY FUNCTION WITHIN A FUNCTION...

Answer / shivang

No we cannot define any function within any function.Even
though i read it in book by yeshwant kanetkar,i also tested
it, my program generated an error while doing so.

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