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Date:Mon Sep 7 13:48:27 1994 
Subject:Re: Variable declarations 
From:James Anderson 
Volume-ID:940908.01 

I wrote a piece of code that initialised a variable, a bit like this.

	vars bar = newfoo();

A little while later I decided that I wanted to have this assignment survive re-compilations
of the program, so I edited the text to be something like this.

	unless isfoo(bar)
        then   bar = newfoo()
        endunless;

It took me quite some time to realise that this stacks <true> on every re-compilation.

Does the inventor of the 'vars x = y' syntax have toenails? :-)

Would it be sensible to introduce the syntax 'vars y -> x'?

We have talked about this one before, but this time I am paying attention!

James Anderson