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I am in the process of learning C programming and would like to know when nesting makes a program peform better and when it could make it worse?

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Hi,

Nesting is a form of putting functions within a function. This enables a program to do multiple combination of functions to run within a single function.

An advantage of nesting is it makes the program more powerful. For example, nested IF statements like comparing numbers:

if (num != 0) {
if (value > 0)
printf("%d is greater than zero" num);
else
out.println("%d is greater than zero " ...

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