On Fri, 31 Jan 2003, ts wrote:

> a> but what if you 'include' the module?
>
>  include dont have effect on local variable : local variables are
>  determined at compile time.

i know that's the way it is _now_, i was talking about what would happen if
the suggestion to make all block variable _not_ local occured ;-)

what's being suggested is that

  loop do
    x = 42
  end

would result in x being in the global scope!  yuk.

-a

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