Script local variables

[J. Landman Gay]

On 2/22/14, 8:42 PM, Mark Wieder wrote:
> Scott-
>
> Saturday, February 22, 2014, 6:26:31 PM, you wrote:
>
>> Uh, oh -- I do this all the time.
>
>> Is this really not supposed to work?
>
> It sometimes works, but it's not legal syntax.
> I don't know of any particular reason why not, but it's not.
>

They must have changed it when you and I weren't looking. Variable 
assignments are even listed in the examples in the dictionary entry for 
"local". I may have to read the whole dictionary again to see what else 
I've missed.

I may also have found a clue to disappearing locals. The same entry says 
this: "If variable preservation is turned on, script locals retain their 
values when the script is re-compiled, unless there is an error in the 
script."

I'm quite sure I've produced enough errors to have destroyed a few 
script locals in my time, so maybe that's what's wrong. I'll try to pay 
more attention.

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