In computing science and informatics, nesting is where information is organized in layers, or where objects contain other similar objects. It almost always refers to self-similar or recursive structures in some sense.
Nesting can mean:
nested calls:
using several levels of subroutines
recursive calls
nested levels of parentheses in arithmetic expressions
nested blocks of imperative source code such as nested if-clauses, while-clauses, repeat-until clauses etc.
information hiding:
nested function definitions with lexical scope
nested data structures such as records, objects, classes, etc.
nested virtualization, also called recursive virtualization: running a virtual machine inside another virtual machine
In a spreadsheet functions can be nested one into another, making complex formulas. The function wizard of the OpenOffice.org Calc application allows to navigate through multiple levels of nesting, letting the user to edit (and possibly correct) each one of them separately.
For example:
=IF(SUM(C8:G8)=0,"Y","N")
In this Microsoft Excel formula, the SUM function is nested inside the IF function. First, the formula calculates the sum of the numbers in the cells from C8 to G8. It then decides whether the sum is 0, and it displays the letter Y if the sum is 0, and the letter N if it is not.
Naturally, to allow the mathematical resolution of these chained (or better: nested) formulas, the inner expressions must be previously evaluated, and this outward direction is essential because the results that the internal functions return are temporarily used as entry data for the external ones.
Due to the potential accumulation of parentheses in only one code line, editing and error detecting (or debugging) can become somehow awkward. That is why modern programming environments -as well as spreadsheet programs- highlight in bold type the pair corresponding to the current editing position. The (automatic) balancing control of the opening and closing parenthesis is known as brace match checking.
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