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shadow warning with function parameters and local module variables

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• Subject: [mg104994] shadow warning with function parameters and local module variables
• From: brien colwell <xcolwell at gmail.com>
• Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 05:13:52 -0500 (EST)

hi all,

I have a set of fairly complex packages. Frequently I use the same 
variable names in function definitions and local modules across many 
packages. Sometimes I see this type of warning:

    <varname>::shdw : Symbol <varname> appears in multiple contexts {*}; 
definitions in context * may shadow or be shadowed ...

This does not happen with symbols in the package context (already 
fixed); it happens only with function parameters and variables in local 
modules. I can recreate the warning with the following code snippet. It 
seems to me that the variable 'v' should be safely local to each module. 
Is there really a symbol conflict to worry about here?

thanks,
Brien


In[1]:=
BeginPackage["a`"];
Test1[t_] := Module[{v = t + 1}, t + v];
EndPackage[];
BeginPackage["b`"];
Test2[t_] := Module[{v = t + 2}, t + v];
EndPackage[];

Out[1]:=
v$::shdw: Symbol v$ appears in multiple contexts {b`,a`}; definitions in 
context b` may shadow or be shadowed by other definitions. >>

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