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Re: scope of variables

• Posted by useless Jan 01, 2011
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atom junk = 12.7 
procedure foo() -- untested, caveats apply! 
integer x = 100 
sequence junk = {} 
 
for something =  1 to x do 
junk &= {} 
-- now i can use junk[x] 
-- it's a different junk[] each iteration 
-- it's saved for use later 
-- or i can erase it at any time 
-- it can hold anything 
-- blah  
-- blarg 
end for 
end procedure -- foo() 

The way i understood Turbo Pascal handled procedures and functions, each was pretty much a new program by itself, inheriting variable scope and file handles and such from the main() it was nested in.

I did enjoy being able to nest procedures and functions inside other procedures and functions to limit scope or increase modularity. Euphoria still does not do this. I asked for it years ago. But much like your request to be able to declare variables willy-nilly, in Euphoria i merely make a new include to achieve these goals.

useless