Re: scope and/or parameters (beginner)

[kilgallen@eisner.decus.org (Larry Kilgallen)]

In article <wccaew0o6bn.fsf@world.std.com>, Robert A Duff <bobduff@world.std.com> writes:

> And furthermore, the need to modify a parameter as a temp inside the
> procedure is rare -- if you need to do that, it's no big deal to declare
> a local variable and initialize it to the value of the parameter.  And
> doing that makes it clear what's going on.

Sometimes examples are better.  We are really talking about:

	MY_GZORN_CODE : GZORN_CODE_TYPE := CALLER_GZORN_CODE;

and while I find myself doing this much more than Bob predicts,
it really has never been a problem.  I like the fact that it
points out those subprograms where I am "doing Pascal" :-).

Larry Kilgallen