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From: JimP
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2018 18:01

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On Tue, 27 Feb 2018 09:33:29 -0800 (PST), Quadibloc
<jsa...@ecn.ab.ca> wrote:

>On Tuesday, February 27, 2018 at 5:56:53 AM UTC-7, J. Clarke wrote:
>
>> You seem to have learned programming in the era in which "scope"
>> actually existed.  When I learned, variables were usually global.
>
>Back in the old days as I remember them, while variables 
>were local to a given routine, subroutines were compiled 
>separately, so variables weren't shared between them; one 
>had to put them in COMMON blocks.
>
>John Savard

Interesting, we learned both scope and global. To use which one when
appropriate.

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