• Ellery Newcomer (3/3) Jun 21 2009 when is symbol shadowing permitted/forbidden?
• Jarrett Billingsley (4/7) Jun 21 2009 You've got it. You're not allowed to shadow locals within the same

Ellery Newcomer <ellery-newcomer utulsa.edu> writes:

when is symbol shadowing permitted/forbidden?

It appears that it is only forbidden in multiple levels of statements,
but not in multiple levels of declDefs

Jarrett Billingsley <jarrett.billingsley gmail.com> writes:

On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 1:31 PM, Ellery
Newcomer<ellery-newcomer utulsa.edu> wrote:
 when is symbol shadowing permitted/forbidden?

 It appears that it is only forbidden in multiple levels of statements,
 but not in multiple levels of declDefs

You've got it.  You're not allowed to shadow locals within the same
function, basically.