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From: Andrzej Kozlowski <akozlow...@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: looping
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2010 11:27:38 +0000 (UTC)
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On 25 Jan 2010, at 11:08, Leonid Shifrin wrote:

> Besides, changes to this seem unlikely because this
> is a fundamental mechanism behind scoping in Module, and it has been this
> way for a very long time (I don't know since which version but I wouldn't be
> surprised if it  was there already in version 1).

Actually there was no Module in version 1. (e.g. see the documentation for Module). Module was introduced in Version 2. Version 1 had only Block.

Andrzej Kozlowski

(Nice tricks, by the way. I have know about some of them for a long time but others are new to me.)