Help, what am I doing wrong???

[Jeanne A. E. DeVoto]

At 10:24 PM -0400 7/30/2005, Dennis Brown wrote:
>I never had any trouble remembering that something in a loop 
>variable is a copy, because that is what I would expect.  However, 
>it appears that what we have is just a label, not really a variable 
>--that is until we exit the loop, then we have a variable with the 
>last contents in it.
>
>I would really like to get a real error message since it does not do 
>what you expect from reading the code.  How many newbies do we have 
>to trip up before we erect a stop sign at that intersection?
>
>Should I BZ it?

Might be a good idea. (I think the lack of an execution error is in 
fact a bug - it used to cause one.)
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