global problems

[Jon]

"In other languages, if you removed all references to a global and 
recompiled, of course it would disappear...? "

Exactly!  This is SO counterintuitive, no matter how useful it might be  
I NEVER would have even considered that the language might behave in 
this way.  Another issue for the Intro For Newbies?

:)

Jon


Brian Yennie wrote:

> Global properties do!
>
> For me, the rationale is simple: globals are the ONLY way to have data 
> which is _not_ stack specific. As such, closing or modifying a stack 
> should never delete global data.
>
> Perhaps what you're really looking for is a stack-level local variable?
>
> I'm thinking the seeming oddity of the situation has something to do 
> with the loose restrictions on declarations in xTalk, and the runtime 
> nature. In other languages, if you removed all references to a global 
> and recompiled, of course it would disappear...?
>
>> Right... well, the point I was trying to make is that there's
>> *nothing* else that has this persistence. Maybe I chose a bad example.
>
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