Local variables within function

So I have been doing some development outside of Construct 2 and decided to come back. One thing that I do a lot is set up a variable within the scope of a function. I know I can just set up a global variable and work around this but I feel it would be easier to just set up local variables within functions. I think enough programmers do this to think about adding it to the to do list.

You can have a Local variable under a function definition, then it will be accessible from function sub-events (from the var definition onwards) and not from elsewhere. What did you have in mind?

create an empty sub event in the function.

then right click to create a local variable