Re: Redefining locals

["Dr. Rich Artym" <rartym@...>]

On Thu, Nov 11, 2004 at 09:13:01AM -0500, Aaron Brown wrote:

> local foo = 1 
> 
> function incrementfirstfoo()
>   foo = foo + 1
>   print(foo)
> end -- incrementfirstfoo
> 
> local foo = 1
> 
> print(foo) -- prints 1
> incrementfirstfoo() -- prints 2
> print(foo) -- prints 1
> incrementfirstfoo() -- prints 3
> print(foo) -- prints 1
> incrementfirstfoo() -- prints 4
> print(foo) -- prints 1
> incrementfirstfoo() -- prints 5
> print(foo) -- prints 1

Nope, that wasn't an example of it.  The function modifies the "foo"
inside its own closure which is an entirely different scope, not the
"foo" in the old scope that was obsoleted by the second "local foo".

Rich Artym.
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