variables, arrays, or custom properties

[erik hansen]

--- "J. Landman Gay" <jacque at hyperactivesw.com>
wrote:
> On 7/16/03 4:32 PM, erik hansen wrote:
> 
> > they used to say that globals were
> > too volatile to rely on very long, so i have
> > been saving to disk after each change.
> 
> I don't know if I'd call them volatile,
> particularly. The only danger is 
> if another stack uses the same variable name,
> which would allow it to 
> change the value when you might not expect it.
> If you give your globals 
> distinctive names and don't reuse those names
> in other stacks, there 
> isn't any danger. Richard's stack-naming
> example works well with globals 
> too; if your stack's name is "MyStack," then
> prefix all its globals with 
> "gMS" or some other identifier, which reduces
> the chance that some other 
> stack will reuse it.

sounds like a good system.
i still worry about crashes.

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erik at erikhansen.org    http://www.erikhansen.org

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