Thanks for the quick answers. In my case, I stumbled into assigning both ways when I lifted a block of code out of a larger routine to turn it into a sub-routine and equivocated between returning an explicit result or assigning the global.
On 1/2/07, Dan Bron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
This change was discussed in the beta forums, but I forget its original justification. I expect that it was that assigning the same name both locally and globally was more often a frustrating mistake than a useful intentional decision.
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