Re: problems with the scoping in eu4
- Posted by bill Jan 07, 2011
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All I would really say is the scoping together with, the issue of name, type retention after the scope is exited make a situation where odd things happen.
I would not say that scope is broken because the issues are not that severe.
Not being able to declare a variable in a nested scope of the same name as a variable in outer scope is odd. Being able to declare a parameter of the same name as the outer variable (and for that to operate exactly as one would expect - temporarily shadowing the outer variable) makes things rather more odd.
None of the problems I have mentioned are show stoppers. I think they add complexity and particularity. Other than that well it is certainly programmable and rather elegant.
I guess the problem is elegant designs are often hard to improve.
I dislike while with entry and I think that variable declaration should be prohibited in while and switch, and that Eu should have a clean block scope notation.
