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I know, just wanted to simplify the case before entering the mentioned "extra complexity".

There are some extra phenomenons complicating and maybe explaining it ...

1. The loop-variable is an alias to the current list element

2. Normally there is no local() for lexvars, maybe they needed to implement a work-around.

My guess is, the programmers decided to implement this "local(lexical loop-var)" by associating it temporarily to the loops lexpad.

This might warrant some mention in the documentation.

definitely!

Cheers Rolf

UPDATE: deleted wrong passage...

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