Global variables, Message Handlers, Functions

[Richard Gaskin]

Björnke von Gierke wrote:

> A global variable is accessible from every handler which calls it. thus
> you have to call it... It IS rather strange, but i guess that it makes
> runrev faster (kind of explicit declaration)

The global keyword is adopted from HyperCard 1.0, and has been a part of all
xTalk implementation since.  How else would the engine know whether to treat
a variable as local or global without such a keyword?

Rev is fast because most of the interpretation is done when a script is
closed, compiled to plaform-independent byte code similar to Java (but tends
to outperform Java for reasons of granularity not worth getting into here).

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