Computer Science Nesting

A Computer Science Nesting is a structured programming method in which data is organized in layers.

• AKA: Nesting (Computing).
• See: Virtual Machine, Computing Science, Informatics (Academic Field), Self-Similarity, Recursion, Subroutine, Recursion (Computer Science), Source Code, Information Hiding, Nested Function, Scope (Computer Science), Nested Virtualization.

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References

2019

• (Wikipedia, 2019) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nesting_(computing) Retrieved:2019-5-9.
  • 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

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