Some people like to solve this problem with 'goto's, as in the 'small' subfunction in https://golang.org/src/pkg/math/gamma.go https://golang.org/src/pkg/math/g

Some people like to solve this problem with 'goto's, as in the 'small' subfunction in https://golang.org/src/pkg/math/gamma.go https://golang.org/src/pkg/math/gamma.go Personally I'd like to see something like Haskell's "where", to create a scope for private functions in the "B style": void largerFunction(void) { small1(); small2(); } where { void small1(void) { ... } void small2(void) { ... } } Until that becomes possible, we can always just make sufficiently small modules with few public functions.