From 516874f4a151ad50004c9e7ec73885319519bcef Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: simonw <simon@simonwillison.net>
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2009 04:13:21 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Documented repl.scope for explicitly exposing variables
 within the repl.

---
 doc/api.txt | 9 +++++++--
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/doc/api.txt b/doc/api.txt
index 8b439cc963..ecc55a9727 100644
--- a/doc/api.txt
+++ b/doc/api.txt
@@ -1432,8 +1432,13 @@ tcp.createServer(function (c) {
 }).listen(5000);
 repl.start("simple tcp server> ");
 ------------------------------------
-
-
+The repl provides access to any variables in the global scope. You can expose a variable 
+to the repl explicitly by assigning it to the +repl.scope+ object:
+------------------------------------
+var count = 5;
+repl.start();
+repl.scope.count = count;
+------------------------------------
 
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