[Remind-Fans] Every Thursday except...

Ed Blackman ed at edgewood.to
Mon Sep 21 21:00:44 EDT 2020


On Sat, Sep 19, 2020 at 05:09:05PM -0500, Tim Chase wrote:
> > Is that correct?  A quick test shows that "meeting" is still set
> > outside the IF block if I don't UNSET it, so it's not block scope,
> > but I haven't used variables before so there might be some
> > complexity I'm missing, or just no scopes/only global scope.
> 
> But yes, it's otherwise global scope.  I usually try to namespace
> them with a prefix like BDAY_varname, ANNIV_varname, WORK_varname
> however these sometimes butt up against the
> maximum-variable-name-length of 16 chars.

Thanks.  I'll stick with the UNSET then.

-- 
Ed Blackman



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