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[Frank D. Engel, Jr.]

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If you use 'local' or 'global' to declare your variables, this is true, 
unless you specify initial variables at this point.

However, implicit variable declarations (just using the variable name) 
causes them to be initialized to the name of the variable:

Try typing something like "put xyzzy" into the msg box (no quotes), the 
response is "xyzzy" (again, no quotes).

This works for other names, too - things like "orange", "fuzzy", and 
"glass" -- whatever is not defined as a keyword or property, etc., and 
even for some things that are.

This is why some of the special "constants" like bold work -- in fact, 
doing a multiline msg box and using this code:


put a into bold
put bold


results in "a" -- not "bold", even though "bold" is documented as a 
keyword!

Next in my line of experiments, I tried this:

local bold
put bold


Which results in empty.  Even though "bold" is documented as a keyword, 
I don't think Rev actually does *anything* special with it.  The 
described behavior for bold flows naturally from the normal workings of 
Transcript, as long as noone tries to cheat by assigning it a value or 
declaring it ;-)

On Mar 21, 2005, at 8:52 PM, Alex Tweedly wrote:

>> Also, I am somewhat uncomfortable with the notion of uninitialized 
>> variables.
>>
> There is no such thing in Rev. It is defined (and documented) that 
> variable which have no specified initial value are created as empty.

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Frank D. Engel, Jr.  <fde101 at fjrhome.net>

$ ln -s /usr/share/kjvbible /usr/manual
$ true | cat /usr/manual | grep "John 3:16"
John 3:16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten 
Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have 
everlasting life.
$
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