1. Re: goto / global variables
At 09:17 AM 9/26/97 -0400, Colin Taylor wrote:
>Craig Gilbert wrote:
>>Read-only? Isn't that essentially what a 'constant' is?
>
>Not exactly. By read-only I meant a local variable which is visible
>globally.
>Outside of its scope it could be read but not written to.
>
>Colin Taylor
>
>
Gotcha. At the local level it would be 'normal', externally it would
seem like a gobal constant.
Quite a neat idea, actually. A 'viewport' variable, obviating the need
for access functions to check on the state of local vars w/out endangering
their state.
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