[ale] Why define one function inside another (bash, awk)?

[Joey Kelly]

> In fact, my initial code is usually a page of comments describing what
> needs to happen, in order. Then each of those comments usually becomes a
> function. If a function gets too long, more comments are written and
> more sub-functions are made, about 5-20 lines at a time.

A lot of my code is exactly like that... document first, code later.

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