RE: Implicit variables - should they be reserved keywords?

["Andrew Piziali" <andy@verisity.com>]

Darren, you wrote:

>   Following a discussion with an engineer who is just starting with e,
>   I was wondering why implicit variables (result, it, me etc..) are
>   not reserved keywords.  Take the following two code examples: ...

The reason they are not keywords is because each is an implicitly
declared var within the scope of its action block.  This explains why an
assignment to "result" in a value-returning method does not change the
value of a field named "result" while the same assignment in a method
does.



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