So begin blocks can introduce a scope, they just don't by default? In your `local t = 1; t` example: what, then, is the scope of t?
On Monday, 8 December 2014 16:56:24 UTC, Isaiah wrote: > > tmp is declared local to the begin blocks > if that sounds odd (it did to me at first), try typing `local t = 1; t`) > > On Mon, Dec 8, 2014 at 6:11 AM, Simon Byrne <simon...@gmail.com > <javascript:>> wrote: > >> According to the docs >> <http://julia.readthedocs.org/en/latest/manual/variables-and-scoping/>, >> begin blocks do not introduce new scope blocks. But this block: >> >> >> https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/blob/1b9041ce2919f2976ec726372b49201c887398d7/base/string.jl#L1601-L1618 >> >> *does* seem to introduce a new scope (i.e. if I type Base.tmp at the >> REPL, I get an error). What am I missing here? >> >> Simon >> > >
