On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 07:51, Julia Lawall <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, 24 May 2011, Francis Galiegue wrote: > >> ... Which is slowly making progress. >> >> Why, to declare a local variable, you have to declare: >> >> local idexpression x; >> >> and not: >> >> local identifier x; >> >> ? >> >> I know that identifiers can also match function names, but what >> special meaning does idexpression have in this context? > > For an idexpression you can specify a type. > > Also, in general an identifier is just a name, like a string. If might > for example be a structure field. A structure field has no notion of > being local. > > julia >
Hmm, can you give me an example of a "local idexpression" which is may _not_ be considered as an identifier? ie, why is it "idexpression" and not "identifier"? -- Francis Galiegue, [email protected] "It seems obvious [...] that at least some 'business intelligence' tools invest so much intelligence on the business side that they have nothing left for generating SQL queries" (Stéphane Faroult, in "The Art of SQL", ISBN 0-596-00894-5) _______________________________________________ Cocci mailing list [email protected] http://lists.diku.dk/mailman/listinfo/cocci (Web access from inside DIKUs LAN only)
