On Sun, 03 Sep 2000 10:06:17 -0500, Chris Huff wrote:
>In article <slr### [at] tealhhjpat>, 
>hjp### [at] SiKituwsracat (Peter J. Holzer) wrote:
>> Oh. I didn't notice that. Cool! I always thought that redeclaring a
>> variable at every assignment is somewhat inelegant.
>
>That shortcut still redeclares the variable, it is just a typing 
>shortcut,

Yes. But as far as "elegance" goes, I am more concerned about my POV
Scripts than what POV internally does with them.

    % a = a + 1

really looks much more like an ordinary assignment than

    #local a = a + 1


>but I agree that it is inelegant to redeclare a variable just 
>to assign to it. That is the exact reason I added a #set keyword in my 
>patch, so you can use a separate keyword for modifying variables.

Saw it just after my reply.  #set somewhat reminds me of BASIC or some
shells, but that's ok.

	hp

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