Re: `*' variable always local to functions

[haahr@mv.us.adobe.com (Paul Haahr)]

uh, i'm not quite sure what you're talking about here.  the only thing about
``*'' which is special is that if you have no other arguments to a lambda, it
is used by default.  this was done so that
	fn g { grep $* }
would just work.  (cultural compatibility, rather than real compatibility.)

for example,

	; * = foo bar
	; fn x a b { echo $b $a; echo $*; * = x y }
	; x 1 2 3
	2 3 1
	foo bar
	; echo $*
	x y
	; 

paul