[QUESTION?] Scope (visibility) of variables declared in blocks?
Bert Freudenberg
bert at isg.cs.uni-magdeburg.de
Wed Feb 21 22:54:50 UTC 2001
On Wed, 21 Feb 2001, Elzbieta Chludzinska wrote:
> When I declare a value within a block:
>
> [ | tmp | ... ],
>
> shouldn't tmp's visibility be limited to the block in which it was declared?
>
> Shouldn't iterates have a limited visibility as well? For example, in:
>
> someCollection do: [ :i | ... ]
>
> shouldn't i's visibility be limited to block in which it's the iterate?
Yes it should. This was postponed until someone finally implements
closures. Currently the declaration inside a block actually creates
another method temp, so it's visible outside, too.
-- Bert
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