Hi,

Have you looked at function ?

ie

myfunc: function [arg1 arg2] [local1 local2] [source]

or

myfunc: function [
    arg1 
    arg2
] [
    local1 
    local2
] [     
    source
]

it pretty much what you want, plus if you use the following 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of
> Rishi Oswal
> Sent: Tuesday, April 23, 2002 11:08 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [REBOL] local vars in functions
> 
> 
> One part of REBOL that can feel odd is when i have to
> define local variables of a function in the first
> block of the function. I find it a bit annoying to
> have to add new variables to the list for every little
> local variable I use. In addition, I  feel it clutters
> up the first block and increases function size. In
> addition, the way it is currently done could make it
> easy to create hard to detect bugs.
> 
> What I would like to see is another shortcut to
> creating local variables in any context (function,
> innerfunction, loop). The obvious way I see of doing
> this is as follows:
> 
> 
> myfunc: func [][
>   localvar:: $25
>   myinnerfunc: func [][
>     innerlocal:: $10
>     print localvar ; prints $25
>   ]
>   print innerlocal; error!
> ]
> print localvar ; error!
> 
> using the "::" for local var will make it more
> convienient to create local vars (which i use all the
> time over global vars). In addition, it will help
> prevent some errors of accidental global var creation
> because it is now easy to spot a local var. Best of
> all, this type of shortcut would not break anything in
> rebol. You could even use this in a loop:
> 
> for count 1 10 1 [
>   localvar:: "hello"
> ]
> 
> Using the "::" shortcut in a global context would be
> the same as using a ":". 
> 
> The disadvantage I see is that it adds another thing
> to the language.. But consider that now we could stop
> using the /local keyword, reduce bugs, and use it
> consistently everywhere, overall it can simplify
> things.
> 
> Anybody have other reasons as to why it was not done
> this way??
> 
> Perhaps there is a performance issue??
> 
> rishi
> 
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