[Omake] Documentation example does not work

[Aleksey Nogin]

On 21.08.2007 12:26, Markus Mottl wrote:

> Ok, thanks, I now get the distinction.  The problem I had run into was
> that it is not possible to unpackage an environment with the
> "value"-function anymore, but one has to use "export" there, too.

Right, one of the big code-level changes in 0.9.8.5 is that the notions 
of and environments and a value are now a lot more separate. Before, it 
was sufficient to simply return an environment value in order for it to 
be exported back, not such exports have to be  explicit.

> Anyway, here is a new problem, which is almost certainly a bug:
> 
> --------------------------------------------------------
> f(arg) =
>   private.env. =
>     arg[] = $(arg)
>   println($(string $(private.env.arg)))
> 
> arg = 43
> f(42)
> --------------------------------------------------------
> 
> This will print 43, but it should really print 42, right?
> 
For now, you need to use an explicit
...
       arg[] = $(private.arg)
...
but this should go away very soon.

Aleksey


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