strings in the global section

[Bjoern Schliessmann]

Tim Chase wrote:

> Sounded like the OP wanted a behavior similar to "auto-globals"
> that has been a long-cursed aspect of PHP.  That, without
> specifying it, local-variables should be global if their name
> exists in the global namespace.  

Sounds like a source of many hard to track down bugs.

>   I'm quite happy with not using "global" at all (okay, there's
> been once or twice I've wanted to modify a module-level settings
> structure, but otherwise...).

AOL

> For the most part, using "global" is cause to be smacked in the
> head as it makes for a nightmare maint.-wise.

ACK.

Regards,


Björn

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