>>>>> "Andrew" == Andrew Koenig <ark at acm.org> writes:
Andrew> That said, I should point out that global variables are
Andrew> usually a bad idea.
But also let me point out that they are not as bad an idea as they are
in e.g. C, because they are only *module* global, and are a handy way
of implementing singletons.
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