A. Stevenson <alexstev AT uk.ibm.com> wrote:

>In article <c7qbon$4ba$1@digitaldaemon.com>, Phill says...
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>>"A. Stevenson" <A._member@pathlink.com> wrote in message
>>news:c7q6nh$2ufr$1@digitaldaemon.com...
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>>>In article <c7p18a$17t5$1@digitaldaemon.com>, J C Calvarese says...
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>>Well according to  JA's  suggestion, the length being
>>referred to would be the length of the spam[].
>>I dont know about anyone else, but I know that
>>I would have changed the name of the int to save
>>future confusion.
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>>With JA's suggestion there would be no need for
>>using a with block, because the [] would automatically
>>act like a with block for anything that is inside the
>>[].
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>>Phill.
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>But suppose that the array is a class that overloads opSlice - you get problems
>if your local variables have the name of any of the public class methods/member
>vars/attributes
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I've already explained that this would cause a compile error which would be solved by giving the full namespace.

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-Anderson: http://badmama.com.au/~anderson/

In article <c7qcpp$5ge$1@digitaldaemon.com>, J Anderson says...
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>A. Stevenson <alexstev AT uk.ibm.com> wrote:
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>>In article <c7qbon$4ba$1@digitaldaemon.com>, Phill says...
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>>>"A. Stevenson" <A._member@pathlink.com> wrote in message news:c7q6nh$2ufr$1@digitaldaemon.com...
>>> 
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>>>>In article <c7p18a$17t5$1@digitaldaemon.com>, J C Calvarese says...
>>>> 
>>>>
>>>
>>>Well according to  JA's  suggestion, the length being
>>>referred to would be the length of the spam[].
>>>I dont know about anyone else, but I know that
>>>I would have changed the name of the int to save
>>>future confusion.
>>>
>>>With JA's suggestion there would be no need for
>>>using a with block, because the [] would automatically
>>>act like a with block for anything that is inside the
>>>[].
>>>
>>>Phill.
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>>> 
>>>
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>>But suppose that the array is a class that overloads opSlice - you get problems if your local variables have the name of any of the public class methods/member vars/attributes
>> 
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>I've already explained that this would cause a compile error which would be solved by giving the full namespace.
>
>-- 
>-Anderson: http://badmama.com.au/~anderson/

My apologies - that's what I get for trying to work and read newsgroups at the same time :)