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st: RE: Declaring several local variables at once
From
"Nick Cox" <[email protected]>
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Subject
st: RE: Declaring several local variables at once
Date
Thu, 5 Aug 2010 19:05:59 +0100
You don't declare local macros in advance. You just define them as
needed.
local a b c = 0
is legal but if defines the local macro -a- as the text "b c = 0", which
is not what you want. Trying to -display- that does cause a problem for
separate reasons.
local a = 0
local b = 0
local c = 0
is the easiest way to do it, short of messing around with command
delimiters.
Locals disappear when a program ends; that's part of their definition.
Nick
[email protected]
Dani Tilley
I was wondering how you can declare more than one local var in one line.
I tried -loc a b c=0- and it returned no error. But -di `a'- returned
r(111).
Also, is there a way to `drop' the locals after your program ends?
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