RE: Interesting!

My first real PL/SQL program used this technique. Of course since it was my first program I ran into a very annoying variable scope issue. Of course after spending hours debugging the code, I realized I should have taken the advice of our DBA, the infamous Jared Still, and just used a package. I have since looked askew at the nesting of procedures. I can't remember the actual error I encountered. It probably had nothing or very little to do with my nested procedures, but in my mind I can't consider this to be a good practice. A package does the same job, and so much cleaner.

P.S. I think this was the first time I noted Jared's annoying habit of being right

Steve McClure

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Waleed
Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2003 4:10 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

I've just discovered this, never thought if it was possible or not. Just wanted to share it with you, so forgive me if you know it already. Procedure can contain other procedures:

create or replace procedure test_test1 as procedure test_test2 as
begin
 dbms_output.put_line('hello2');
 end;
function c1 ( p1 in number) return number as begin
 return(p1 * 2);
end;
begin

  dbms_output.put_line('hello1');
  test_test2;
  dbms_output.put_line( c1(10));

Regards,

Waleed

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