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From: cash@csmil.umich.edu (Howard Cash)
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Subject: Declaring "thePort"
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Date: 10 May 89 06:23:27 GMT
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Reply-To: cash@csmil.umich.edu (Howard Cash)
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What are the consequences of declaring a local variable within 
a function called "thePort" and setting it explicitly with 
GetPort(thePort).  I find the following code in some examples
in LSC TransSkel (release 2.0)

DoWClose ()
{
GrafPtr		thePort;
MenuHandle	m;
Integer		i, mItems;
Str255		iTitle, wTitle;

    GetPort (&thePort);		/* grafport of window to be closed */

Seems kind of strange to me....

-howard