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[Ali Çehreli]

On 03/24/2012 12:18 AM, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> Apparently, scope parameters aren't currently checked at all, so they're
> _very_ buggy:
>
> http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=6931
>
> - Jonathan M Davis

Thank you. I take it that 'scope' is a way of a function to promise that 
it will not hold on to that reference longer than the function call. In 
this sense, 'scope' means "the caller may pass in variables of *even* 
scope duration."

That makes sense to me. :)

Ali