cross-stack globals, also, file inclusion

[Alex Rice]

On Wednesday, October 22, 2003, at 07:44  PM, Stephen Quinn Barncard 
wrote:

> doesn't this make a 'constant global'? -- One has to trust one's own 
> code somewhere, even if you had constants in Rev, they wouldn't be any 
> different than a variable as far as Rev cares -- it's still places 
> data in memory, and if memory gets screwed up, it's over anyway and we 
> restart...

Yeah- sure. There are lots of ways to simulate a global constant. See 
my getConst() accessor function earlier in this thread.

But there is a difference between a true constant and simulating a 
constant because you are trusting that you and any other programmer 
that touches the script will never, ever write that to variable in 
their script.

The only reason I brought this up is because I frequently think - hey 
we've got globals, constants, so why not global constants?


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