Path: utzoo!censor!geac!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!psuvax1!husc6!m2c!jjmhome!smds!rh From: rh@smds.UUCP (Richard Harter) Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc Subject: Re: Request For Comment About Handling Of Globals Summary: Does Algol have much to answer for? Message-ID: <252@smds.UUCP> Date: 23 Nov 90 07:45:51 GMT References: <242@smds.UUCP> Organization: SMDS Inc., Concord, MA Lines: 22 In article , pcg@cs.aber.ac.uk (Piercarlo Grandi) writes: [ ... on the issue of scoping rules ... ] > Oh yes. And I have decided to come out of the closet with a profound and > utterly revolutionary secret that I have been holding in my conscience > for so many years. Alas, no more. I have to pull this weight off my > chest (I am also pulling your leg a bit here :->). Pull on the right one, please. The left one is already 47 feet long. Piercarlo introduces the interesting notion of inverting the operation of scoping. The idea is, of course, utterly unsettling to those of us for whom the traditional rules are engrained. I am going to have to think about this one. I would be enchanted to see some further development of this idea. -- Richard Harter, Software Maintenance and Development Systems, Inc. Net address: jjmhome!smds!rh Phone: 508-369-7398 US Mail: SMDS Inc., PO Box 555, Concord MA 01742 This sentence no verb. This sentence short. This signature done.