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In article <2832@enea.se> sommar@enea.UUCP(Erland Sommarskog) writes:
.00704a-Liber,N.J. (nevin1@ihlpf.UUCP) writes:
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..In addition to the standard var declarations, one should be allowed to
..declare a variable 'static' (to steal from C).  The scoping would be the
.....
..Note:  This optimization can already be done on variables that can be
..determined not to be used recursively and are referenced at a level deeper
..then they are declared.  However, by adding explicit static declarations,
..the programmer has much more flexibility.  Comments??
.
.It seems to me that compiler should have the headache to decide which
.variables should be static, not the programmer. 

I did not propose to eliminate that 'headache' from the compiler (see the
word 'addition' in my first sentence) but to allow the user to specify
variables he wishes to use on more than one level but allows recursive
calls to use the same variable.  With a type 'static', he can declare
global-type (quick-access) variables AND restrict their scope.  This would
be in *addition* to the standard types of variable declarations.
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