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From: dmurdoch@watstat.waterloo.edu (Duncan Murdoch)
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Subject: Re: Why does this work in TP ?
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Date: 19 Dec 90 13:56:42 GMT
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In article <1990Dec18.200336.13056@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> dslg0849@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Daniel S. Lewart) writes:
>Thus there is no unusual feature in the program; it is a legal OOP ability;
>it is not a violation of scoping rules; it can be explained; and it is a legal
>documented feature.

No, there is a bug if that program compiles in TP 5.5:  The identifier InMethodA
is defined to be a DumbObj method, so scoping rules say it can't be redefined as
a nested procedure in MethodA.  TP 6.0 catches the error.

Duncan Murdoch