Re: [local] <namelist> = do <block> =<explist> end

["Soni L." <fakedme@...>]

On 18/08/15 04:54 PM, Sean Conner wrote:
> It was thus said that the Great Soni L. once stated:
> > Hello!
> >
> > I'd like a way to do
> >
> > local v
> > do v = 3 end
> >
> > without assigning nil to v.
> >
> > Can we get expressionblocks?
>    What, exactly, is wrong with
>
> 	local v
> 	do
> 	  v = 3
> 	end -- ?
>
>    It works, even with additional local variables:
>
> 	local a,b,c
> 	do
> 	  a = 1
> 	  b = 2
> 	  c = a * somefunc(b) + someotherthing()
> 	end
>
>    I use this pattern quite often in Lua.
>
>    -spc (What, exactly, are you doing that require all these proposals you
> 	make?)
Time-sensitive stuff.

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