May 27th, 2013

What are the scoping rules for variables in nested courtyards?

I dreamed that I had to fix a bug caused by variable redeclaration inside a nested courtyard. Had to move the horses out of the way first.

And then it got weird.

I won’t go into the orchestra rehearsal that turned out to be just a recording played on a loudspeaker in an empty concert hall. Because you wouldn’t believe that part.

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Raymond has been involved in the evolution of Windows for more than 30 years. In 2003, he began a Web site known as The Old New Thing which has grown in popularity far beyond his wildest imagination, a development which still gives him the heebie-jeebies. The Web site spawned a book, coincidentally also titled The Old New Thing (Addison Wesley 2007). He occasionally appears on the Windows Dev Docs Twitter account to tell stories which convey no useful information.

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