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nice Gotcha!

• To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
• Subject: [mg15011] nice Gotcha!
• From: "Barthelet, Luc" <lucb at ea.com>
• Date: Sat, 5 Dec 1998 01:30:15 -0500
• Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com

Code similar to the following gave me trouble today. I thought it would
be fun to share:

Clear[x];
test[] := Module[
      {x},
      
      ToExpression["x=3"];
      Print[x];
      ];
test[];
Print[x];

In my version. "x" was infact the variable "Active" which is an option
to ButtonBox and created a ton of problems. Of course I could not
change the name (user driven, and that's why I am running a
ToExpression on it).

The solution was to not declare Active in the Module and to
Clear[Active] in the function.

any other insight?


Luc Barthelet
GM the day, Mayor at night
http://www.simcity.com

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