>>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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>Because you are confusing private with local. xBase has private variables, most other languages do not have private.
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>Ther are two issues related to scope of a variability, its visibility (can it be read and written) and its lifetime (when is it released automatically).
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><strong>Scope Visibility Lifetime</strong>
>PUBLIC In the declaring routine, From creation unitil it
> below the declaring routine, explicitly released or fox
> and above the declaring closes
> routine
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>PRIVATE In the declaring routine and From creation until the
> below the declaring routine declaring routine ends
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>LOCAL In the declaring routine ONLY From creation until the
> declaring routine ends
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>Hope this helps
thanks for the table, it helps.
btw, the statement ending "...most other languages do not have private" as not the source of confusion. It's that I'm a trained C and Java programmer working with fox right now and a private var is, well, a private var ( but in fox that seems to be a local ), a protected or local var is a private in fox , and the only standard that MS decided to retain was for public scope. thanks again
- jer