On 25/10/2007 7:11 PM, Rolf Turner wrote:
>
> OTOH something called temp is unlikely to be something of which you are
> passionately fond anyhow.
Unless you put your thousand year temperature records into it.
Duncan Murdoch
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It is a holdover from my past when one of the languages that I used to
use had that convention for 'local' variables in a block of code. I
was used to the convention of being able to define a variable that was
only known in the enclosing block. By convention I try to keep those
objects active for
On 26/10/2007, at 11:44 AM, Tim Calkins wrote:
> Hi everyone -
>
> This came up within the last day -- Jim's response to Deepankar is
> pasted below.
(but snipped out of this response).
> There are probably lots of reasons, but what is the advantage to using
> .temp over, say, temp?
>
Hi everyone -
This came up within the last day -- Jim's response to Deepankar is pasted below.
There are probably lots of reasons, but what is the advantage to using
.temp over, say, temp?
I often find myself writing temporary objects -- should I use the .
preface? What would be the advantages
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