Proposal for design of 'scope' (Was: Re: Opportunities for D)

[H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d]

On Sun, Jul 13, 2014 at 12:07:58PM +0200, Jacob Carlborg via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> On 2014-07-11 16:29, H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> 
> >Because the scope of the parameter 'obj' is defined to be the scope
> >of myFunc only, according to the current proposal.
> 
> Wouldn't it be possible to define the scope of a parameter to the
> caller's scope?
[...]

We could, but how would that help static analysis within the function's
body, since the caller's scope is unknown?


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