SV: not quite a bug, but...

[Vlad Dumitrescu]

> > > > The faulty code was:
> > > > case NewTime = 0 of
> > > > true -> ...
> > > > false ->
> > > > end,

>I don't want to be difficult here (:-), but it is useful. You may actually 
>want to keep
>the value of the expression for later use and not just within the case 
>where
>you can use aliases. It is, alas, a property of Erlang's variable scoping 
>that you
>can bind a variable anywhere.

Well, since one can always write
	NewTime = value(),
	case NewTime of
		...
which is much better style, I thought it might deserve a warning :-)

regards,
Vlad



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