Global vs Local behaviour

[DrD]

I think I may have found something I hadn't noticed before, which may explain my concern being debated in this discussion. Apparently, if a variable is created via the command line, (for example and notice Type: string):

[HOME]stg:="Stuff";

and then a program using that variable name "EXPORT str(stg)" just gets COMPILED, it destroys the original value, in what I was thinking was a global variable, (compile, but don't run this yet):

Code:


EXPORT stg;
EXPORT str(stg)  
BEGIN      
  return stg;
END;

Notice that the value of the (global?) command line variable stg gets destroyed:

[HOME]stg; ===> 0.00 (Type: real)

It seems like the compiler over-writes the (pre-existing) initial command line version. Thoughts, bug (y/n)?

-Dale-