Re: Redefining locals

[Michael Bernstein <michael@...>]

Dr. Rich Artym wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 10, 2004 at 12:53:05PM -0800, Mark Hamburg wrote:
>
>
> > Why does Lua (5.0) allow the redefinition of locals within a single scope?
> > This has bitten me a few times when I've forward declared something and then
> > defined it again rather than just assigning to the forward declaration.
>
>
> Is there any circumstance at all where redefinition provides any benefit,
> within a single scope (ie. not subscopes)?  I can't think of any offhand.
>
> Maybe this is just a bug?
>
> Rich Artym.

I can't think of any offhand, but there may be some use at some point, 
so theoretically, why have the language limit that?


I'm sure that someone somewhere can think up a use for it.

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