note 10884 deleted from functions.arguments by cmb

Note Submitter: david at petshelter dot net ---- With reference to the note about extract() by dietricha@subpop.com: He is correct and this is great! What he does not say explicitly is that the extracted variable names have the scope of the function, not the global namespace. (This is the appropriate behavior IMO.) If for some reason you want the extracted variables to be visible in the global namespace, you must declare them 'global' inside the function.