Help, what am I doing wrong???

[Jon]

Horrifying.  I assume this is BZd?!?


Mark Wieder wrote:

>Jon-
>
>Sunday, July 31, 2005, 12:15:53 PM, you wrote:
>
>J> Mark:
>
>J> The point I was TRYING to make <grin> was that FOR loop variables 1) had
>J> to be declared locally; and 2) could not be modified inside a loop.  I
>J> was trying to make a general case for this kind of a definition of an
>J> "error". 
>
>Ah. Gotcha. Yes - that's at least somewhat mind-boggling.
>
>A semi-related point that seems to bother nobody but me is that you
>don't have to declare loop variables (i.e., Variable Checking [aka
>explicitVars] doesn't catch them), but if you don't explicitly declare
>them as local then they become global by default, in which case you
>get namespace conflicts. Declaring "local x" when you've already got a
>"repeat for x=1 to 10" line somewhere in your script will cause a
>compiler error at the "local x" line.
>
>  
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