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RE: namespace coflicts: local vs private symbols

• Posted by Lewis Townsend <Keroltarr at hotmail.com> Feb 09, 2003
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Hello Al,

> If you check out your code carefully, i dont think you will
> find this to be a namespace error?

I know its not a namespace error. Eu only looks for variables until it 
finds one. Then if that variable dont have a value then it returns an 
error rather than continuing to look for another variable of the same 
name (but of different scope). The issue is NOT that the given code 
SHOULD work, it is that there is no way to access the local variable 
within the scope of the private variable... not even as the first 
assignment of the private one. The private variable completely blocks 
the local variable. I just think that there should be SOME way to access 
that local var. Not that the code I gave should pass without error. 
Perhaps the following example would be a suitable alternative:

sequence x
x = {0,0,0,0}
procedure p ()
	sequence x
	x = local:x + 1
	? x
end procedure
? x
p ()
? x

later
Lewis Townsend