Accessing a global variable when there is a local variable in the same name

[Kenny McCormack]

(stuff)

Troll alert.

troll, n., (Incorrect, but common among the lower classes, definition
follows): Someone I disagree with.

 

[Mark McIntyre]

On Mon, 23 Aug 2004 14:29:40 GMT, in comp.lang.c ,

troll, n., (Incorrect, but common among the lower classes, definition
follows): Someone I disagree with.

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[Kenny McCormack]

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Um, talking to yourself, are you?

If, by your lights, I'm a troll, then aren't you ignoring your own advice?

 

[E. Robert Tisdale]

Mark McIntyre wrote:
[snip]

Um, talking to yourself, are you?

If, by your lights, I'm a troll, then aren't you ignoring your own advice?

Hi Kenny,

Mark McIntyre is one of our indigenous trolls.
Please ignore him.

 

[Keith Thompson]

Um, talking to yourself, are you?

If, by your lights, I'm a troll, then aren't you ignoring your own advice?

Troll! No, you're a troll! Am not! Are too! Are not! Am too!
TROLLTROLLTROLLTROLLTROLLTROLLTROLLTROLLTROLLTROLLTROLLTROLLTROLL

(Anyone who hasn't been a troll is encouraged to assume that my
ridicule is not directed at them.)

Followups redirected appropriately.