Ah, this is a fun lesson: unlike C, C++, or any “real” programming language, variables defined inside a block (ie, surrounded by curly braces) are not defined in their own scope. Or, another way of saying it is a function only has a single scope, and any variable defined in any block in that [...]
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No Block Scoping
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Creating a Package
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It seems like it should be extremely easy to group classes into packages, but I’ve had a hell of a time trying to derive any meaning from the documentation. After much trial and error, I’ve figured out the following minimal example to show how to create and compile a basic package. This example [...]
