Bill Allombert on Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:21:05 +0100 |
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variable creation |
Dear PARI developers, Jeroen and Henri have asked why doing foo(x) when foo is not defined create x. ? variable() %1 = [x] ? foo(2) *** at top-level: foo(2) *** ^------ *** not a function in function call ? variable() %2 = [x, foo] The answer is that the evaluator does as follow: ? disassemble(()->foo(2)) 00001 pushdyn foo \\ $1 = the value of the global variable foo which is 'foo 00002 pushstoi 2 \\ $2 = 2 00003 calluser 1 \\ evaluate $1($2) which fails if $1 is not a t_CLOSURE So actually, when calluser detect that function foo does not exist the variable is already created. Cheers, Bill.