Bizarro global anomaly

[Shari]

I often use the global gTemp as a sort of catchall global.  To move 
data from here to there, knowing that other handlers will use it at 
other times for other things.  And the stacks I'm working on have 
been using this global successfully for two years.  No problemo.

All of a sudden, the data wasn't being moved.  It was as if gTemp was 
being treated as a local instead of global, even though it was always 
declared as a global.  Yes I'd made changes to the code, but after 
studying it over and over for several hours, found nothing that would 
have emptied out the global gTemp.

put an "answer gTemp" at the end of one handler and the beginning of 
the next, to verify.  Data existed at the end of handler A, but when 
handler B started up, suddenly gTemp was empty.  No explanation.

I tried everything.  Reinstalled Metacard.  Rebuilt the primary stack 
using the global from scratch.  Spent an entire day trying to figure 
it out.  No luck.

So I changed gTemp to gTempie (using Metacard's replace) and 
suddenly, all is well.

Talk about gremlins!  This thing had me nuts!


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