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- Subject: Re: scope hiding suggestion
- From: "Lucas Ackerman" <ackerman@...>
- Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2002 19:02:51 -0500
> Lexical scoping only works for things literally defined inside the
> scope. If a function is not literally written inside the
> scope of a local variable, it does not have access to
> that variable.
Ahhhh, that makes sense. I was not aware that lexical scoping
applies only during definition and not execution. Thanks for
clarifying this. It may be a good 'gotcha' to note in the manual for
people not familiar with lexical scoping behavior: that it's still static,
and changes only 'visibility' rules. My suggestion is hereby
withdrawn. I'm tempted to apply a nethack-ism: TDDTOE (the dev
team thinks of everything). thanks,
-Lucas