From: dblack@...
Date: 2002-09-13T22:48:34+09:00
Subject: Re: private variables

Hi --

On Fri, 13 Sep 2002, Tom Sawyer wrote:

> On Thu, 2002-09-12 at 19:21, Christoph wrote:
>
> > Neato! -- Actually I sort of like Dave's idea - it is probably
> > better then the 1001  incarnations of
> >
> >   {<a; b |   local z
> >     i_am_block_local := ...
> >     etc
> >     }
>
> is that colon there on purpose?
>
> if so, it woulld also  get rid of the ambiguity between local variable
> assignment and calling standard writter methods.

I think Christoph's point (with the colon and the rest of the
punctuation) was to illustrate the visual and stylistic dangers
of such things :-)


David

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