Something is wrong: the documentation or the implementation of WV 1.1

[Dr. Johannes Brauer]

The WV documentation says:

>Undeclared Variables
>This is an error that appears when you are using a variable that has
not been declared within the method. It may be a temporary, instance,
or class variable. In VisualWorks, you are prompted to create the
variable. In WebVelocity, the expression following the >variable is
highlighted in red and you must correct the error before the method
can be saved."

But if you introduce an undeclared variable while writing a method it
is compiled without an error message and the variable is declared
behind the scenes (where actually?).

I find this an annoying behavior.

Joh.

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Johannes Brauer
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[Michael Lucas-Smith]

You're right, it's getting declared as a global, until you declare it as an inst var or temp yourself -- which might be hard to do if you don't notice it.

Michael

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[Dr. Johannes Brauer]

Is there any chance to get the WV 1.0 behavior back?

Johannes

[Michael Lucas-Smith]

I've made the AR for it. While we're handling compilation errors correctly, we're not handling compilation warnings at all - we really need to provide that information in the UI and in this particular case, provide you a way to add it as an instance variable right then and there.

Michael