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Declaring a Variable

The ‘var’ statement declares a single local variable.

var variable_name

You don't have to declare variables, but there are a couple of benefits:

• Syntax formatting works for references to it.

• Variables are initialized to the empty string value, nil, so they are not confused with literal values when used without being initialized.

For example:

macro SomeFunction()
{ 
    var localx

    // "localx" is displayed with "Ref to Local" style 
    localx = 0  
}

A local variable cannot be access outside of its function.

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