OpenEuphoria

Re: a little confused about scope

• Posted by "Hayden McKay" <hmck1 at dodo.com.au> Dec 17, 2003
• 463 views

I think there was something in the "refman.txt" about this.
I seen it somewere in the docs.
Yes, you must always declare variables within any routine type at the top
befor any other call.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jason Dube" <dubetyrant at hotmail.com>
To: <EUforum at topica.com>
Subject: a little confused about scope


>
>
> Hi all,
>
> I was having trouble figuring out why I get an error in my program if I
> declare a variable in the middle of a procedure as opposed to declaring
> it at the top of the procedure. If I declare it at the top of the
> procedure, my program runs fine.
>
> This generates the error message: "expected to see possibly 'end', not a
> type"
>
> But if I put the declaration at the top of the procedure it runs fine.
> Do private variables in functions have to be declared before anything
> else? I read the manual under scope, but I didn't come across any
> hardfast rules, am I missing something?
>
> procedure test_block_1()
>
>
> position (20,1)
> puts(1,"RAW INPUT:")
> print (1,raw_data)
> position(22,1)
> print(1,process_one)
>
> position(23,1)
> puts (1,"LENGTH OF COMMONWORDS SEQUENCE: ")
> print(1,length(common_100))
>
> position(27,1)
> puts(1,"LENGTH OF TOKENIZED DATA: ")
> print(1,length(process_one))
>
> object x  <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<OFFENDING LINE<<<<<<<<<<
>
> position(28,1)
> x=find("in",common_100)
> puts(1,"WHICH PLACE IN COMMONWORDS SEQUENCE: ")
> print(1,x)
>
> position(29,1)
> print(1,process_two)
>
> position(30,1)
> puts(1,"WHICH PLACE IN FIRSTWORDS SEQUENCE: ")
> print(1,process_three)
> end procedure
>
>
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