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Hum, interesting, this was new to me. But there's another way around it, which (I think) is a little better: Declare all your variables.

This prints out "10, 10":

i = 5;
void work()
{
    i = 10;
    print(i);
}
work();
print(i);

This one prints "10, 5" as expected:

int i = 5;
void work()
{
    int i = 10;
    print(i);
}
work();
print(i);

Actually, it seems that this is "correct" behaviour as the manual reveals (see also). So in the first example, the outer "i" is simply a "global" variable by definition. You can surely argue about this. It makes sense once you know it -- but it's not really intuitive if you ask me.

If you want to continue working with "untyped" variables, you can use "var" instead of a real type like "int". This will work as expected without having to assign a proper type:

var i = 5;
void work()
{
    var i = 10;
    print(i);
}
work();
print(i);

(I think properly typed variables save you from a lot of trouble, however -- but that's a matter of taste.)