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[Greg Ewing]

Eric Brunel wrote:
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> I always
> found the C++/Java convention particularly disturbing.

If you want something really disturbing, try the
Apple Object Pascal scope rules:

  type
    Foo = object
      a: integer;
      procedure blarg(a: integer);
    end;

  procedure Foo.blarg(a: integer);
  begin
    writeln(a);
  end;

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Believe it or not, it writes the *attribute* a,
not the parameter!

-- 
Greg Ewing, Computer Science Dept, 
University of Canterbury,	  
Christchurch, New Zealand
http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~greg