"Richard A. O'Keefe" <ok@[...].nz>  wrote:
>  	A temp var is declared in the scope where it is first assigned.
>  
>  *EEEK*  I've used a couple of programming languages with that rule,
>  and it is an extremely good way to introduce bugs.  We already _have_
>  Smalltalk syntax for declaring precisely where you want temp vars to
>  be; what's wrong with that?  (Mind you, I had some trouble _believing_
>  the Smalltalk syntax, e.g. [:foo||bar| especially as || is a token in
>  ANSI Smalltalk, but I did manage to get a parser to parse it correctly.
>  Still, _any_ explicit syntax for this is better than making it implicit
>  that way.  Generations of Squik programmers will curse this decision if
>  there ever are any such generations.

Alright, I'll concede.  I just thought it would be nice to get rid of
the temp var list syntax.  This way all code would just be statements.