global variables ?

[Emile van Sebille]

Ulrich Petri:
>
> Well - no. It's not.
> Globals are bad, ugly, ...
>

Well, not in and of themselves.  They're used in about 200 places in the
standard distribution, and there's talk (although no plans) of extending the
syntax further to allow designation of an encompassing (or possible other)
namespace, as in:

global var in namespace


Emile van Sebille
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