[Developers] Re: [CactusMaint] Re: Cactus/1328

[Jonathan Thornburg]

In bug report #1328, Frank Herrmann wrote
>   Description:	I think identical group and variable names should be
>   caught by the CST and produce an error.
>   
>   example:
>   
>   real blah TYPE=GF
>   {
>     blah
>   } "description"
>   
>   should not be allowed by the CST.

Could someone explain to me why this should be an error?
It seems to me that it's a useful feature, as it saves having to
invent a dummy group name if you just want a single variable.

ciao,

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