time shorthand convertor - Is there an advantage to declaring local variables?

[Peter T. Evensen]

If you turn on explicit variable, then you have to.  Turning this on can 
catch some script errors (like misspelled variable names).

Otherwise there isn't really any advantage that I can think of.

At 12:26 PM 7/28/2006, you wrote:
>Is there an advantage to declaring local variables? (other than a
>reminder?)
>
>
>On Jul 27, 2006, at 2:58 PM, Mark Wieder wrote:
>
>>Cute. I couldn't resist fiddling with it a bit.
>>
>>ON convertTime
>>   local t
>>   local ampm
>>   local t2

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