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

[Mike Kerner]

ick.  Ick all the way around.  More of "this me".

On Tue, Jun 7, 2016 at 11:43 AM, Ralph DiMola <rdimola at evergreeninfo.net>
wrote:

> What about an enable "lexically-scoped variables in LCS" option check box
> in
> preferences or maybe an option in the stack so "lexically-scoped variables
> in LCS" is scoped by stack? The latter is probably the better option so
> existing library stacks won't be affected but a new main stack can have
> "lexically-scoped variables in LCS" enabled.
>
> Ralph DiMola
> IT Director
> Evergreen Information Services
> rdimola at evergreeninfo.net
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: use-livecode [mailto:use-livecode-bounces at lists.runrev.com] On
> Behalf
> Of Peter TB Brett
> Sent: Tuesday, June 07, 2016 11:19 AM
> To: How to use LiveCode
> Subject: Re: "LiveCode Infinity": lexically-scoped variables and bytecode
> blocks
>
> 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
>
> --
> Dr Peter Brett <peter.brett at livecode.com> LiveCode Technical Project
> Manager
>
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