Var a's scope is the whole function, thus the duplicate variable warning.
However, the assignment is subject to the conditional. If the condition is not satisfied the assignment does not happen and var a is null. Tracy ________________________________ From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of lynxoid7 Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2008 10:50 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [flexcoders] Weird compiler/debugger issue I ran into this yesterday and so far have not figured out what's the problem. So I have this piece of code: private function foo(value:XMLList):void{ trace("foo"); if (value == null || value.length() == 0) // a comment line here // another comment here var a:Object = new Object(); var b:Object = new Object(); var a:Object = new Object(); .... } compiler issues a warning that a is defined twice, however, when I debug this code, debugger skips the very first line of code after the comment lines leaving a uninitialized. Had I not inited a the second time, I'll get a runtime null pointer exception. Have anyone run into anything similar? My guess is that somewhere some cache doesn't get deleted/updated, however, I tried "Clean", tried removing some cache files, tried deleting and creating the project.
