About variable.

[Frank D. Engel, Jr.]

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When would you have to use a global variable, in so far as something 
cannot be accomplished with a custom property?

On Mar 31, 2005, at 12:41 PM, Mark Wieder wrote:

> Mikey-
>
> Thursday, March 31, 2005, 6:00:06 AM, you wrote:
>
> M> The thing about "globals" in rev is that they're not really 
> "globals"
> M> but, in old basic parlance "commons".  If it was "global" you would
> M> define it as global and it would be everywhere in Rev without 
> further
> M> "global" statements inside objects.
>
> That's exactly right. There's been quite a bit of discussion of
> globals here over the last couple of years. Basically declaring a
> variable as "global" flags it as a candidate for being used in other
> scripts. Then declaring the variable a global in a second script
> references the first instance of the variable. The whole thing is a
> bit error-prone, if you ask me. I avoid globals whenever I can, but
> sometimes you gotta use them.
>
> -- 
> -Mark Wieder
>  mwieder at ahsoftware.net
>
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Frank D. Engel, Jr.  <fde101 at fjrhome.net>

$ ln -s /usr/share/kjvbible /usr/manual
$ true | cat /usr/manual | grep "John 3:16"
John 3:16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten 
Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have 
everlasting life.
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