>reading a recent post, I read ( then proved ) that if you declear a private var in you main program it will have golbal scope.
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>WHY!!!?!?!?!
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>unless I'm mistaken, in most ( if not all ) other programming languages when you declair a private var it is scoped to that file, method, function, etc. I should be able to declair the Var isSomeThing as private anywhere in the program, and anywhere else ( other than that function, etc. ) isSomeThing should not exist, irregardless of how it came to that piece of code ( even if it is in the main.prg file ).
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>I don't understand why the deviation on something so primitive.
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jer,
Sort of, kind of. If you declare a variable as PRIVATE, then any program in the call stack can "see" that value,
unless they declare a variable by the same name as private. Then any changes to that variable do not affect the value of the variable in the caller.
George
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