finding shadowed globals when strict compilation is on

Dr. Hawkins dochawk at gmail.com
Sat Apr 20 21:25:38 EDT 2013


On Sat, Apr 20, 2013 at 5:55 PM, Peter Haworth <pete at lcsql.com> wrote:
> Maybe try the "other FInd dialog (on the Edit menu).

Wow.   OK, so that one could find it.  And the 1 instance was in a comment . . .

> Also, are you sure a global is the problem?  There's a bug
> in strict compilation mode where a local variable in a script will
> sometimes be flagged as shadowing another local variable, even though it
> doesn't.  Only way to get round it is save, quite and run again.

It seems to be shadowing itself, when the debugger is run multiple
times . . . and that's the only workaround I've found, too.


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