Hi Valery,
Local is most useful when dealing with macsyma "named" arrays. It keeps
them from becoming permanent.
Regards,
Dan
Valery Pipin wrote:
> Dear List,
>
> Am I right to expect that local declaration like, e.g.,
> f(a):=block(local(y),y:2, a*y);
> will declare variable y to belong to that block only?
> I thought it should not affect computations with variable y outside of that
> function?
>
> rgds
> Valery
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