var disambiguation problem?

ID:2249713
 
May 22 2017, 9:05 am
(See the best response by Nadrew.)
so I have defined a datum containing only var x=1 and a public var x=2
A              //Datum A
    var/x=1
B              //Datum B
    var/y      

var/x=2


mob/verb/printt()
    var/B/b=new()
    b.y=new/A()
    
    world<<b.y:x

Instead of printing b.y:x it printed public var x, is this intentional??

I mean should compiler search x inside y??
May 22 2017, 12:12 pm
Best response
With the : operator you're making it hard for the compiler to actually figure out which variable you're after, should work fine with the . operator.

However, you generally should avoid naming local variables after global ones and vise versa, it makes code readability a nightmare.