Re: scope of variables

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  • Posted by jeremy (admin) Dec 30, 2010
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jimcbrown said...

The problem with that is that it could break a lot of pre-existing code. All the way back from the 1.x days.

Since we're post-4.0, we absolutely can not make this change. We can not break existing code.

Maybe provide a with/without option that is on by default because it is a pretty bad practice. i.e. 

without strict_naming 
 
integer abc = 20 
 
procedure def() 
    sequence abc = "John" 
    ? abc 
end procedure

Valid since without strict_naming, but by default strict_naming is on.

Jeremy

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