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Local variables wrongly flagged as non-prefixed globals

Plugin Check flags local, non-global variables as needing a prefix, producing hundreds of warnings that look like false positives.

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3 public reports · first reported 15 December 2025 · last reported 17 March 2026

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What's going wrong

Plugin Check flags variables as non-prefixed globals even when they are used only locally inside functions, methods, or loops.

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In the idea report

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  • The products the 3 reports are about, and how many came each month.
  • Related problems.

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