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From: ksitze@nmsu.edu (Kevin Sitze)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Declaring "thePort"
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Date: 10 May 89 14:56:44 GMT
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In article <cash@csmil.umich.edu's message of 10 May 89 06:23:27 GMT>
>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....

Nothing wrong with it at all.  Brushup on your scoping rules and look
at the program again...

			-Kelesi
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