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Mel is the Maye Embedded Language. It's generally quite sane with a few 
quirks that come out of it being pseudo shell-like.

Howveer it does have one fairly batshit convention, at least in my 
opinion anyway, and lets face it, in a rant such as this that's the only 
opinion that matters.

So, anyway, the following program 

	proc go() {
		global int $depth = 3;
		print ("\n" + $depth);
		$depth = 1;
		print (" " + $depth);
	}


	go();
	go();




	
prints out

    3 1
    1 1


Why? Because 

	global int $depth = 3;


is only evaluated once. At compile time.

• mel Simon Wistow 10:49 on 26 Apr 2004
  • Re: mel peter (Peter da Silva) 14:03 on 26 Apr 2004
    • too deep to show

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