"LiveCode Infinity": lexically-scoped variables and bytecode blocks

[Peter TB Brett]

On 07/06/2016 16:04, Dr. Hawkins wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 7, 2016 at 4:05 AM, Peter TB Brett <peter.brett at livecode.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Variables in LCB are going to become lexically scoped (
>> https://github.com/livecode/livecode/pull/4113).  This means that
>> variables declared inside an "if" or "repeat" block won't be accessible
>> after the end of that block.
>>
>
> To have this in livecode itself is on my top 3 list . . .

Me too!

Unfortunately, as I understand it we can't do this at the moment without 
breaking backwards compatibility. :-(

                                     Peter

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Dr Peter Brett <peter.brett at livecode.com>
LiveCode Technical Project Manager

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