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[Bob Sneidar]

The big thing about globals for me, even more than their scope, is  
their persistence. I can declare a global and check it's current value  
in the message box without any script even running. They are the only  
way to do environment variables, where the state of various things can  
be maintained long term while the applications is "running" (an odd  
concept in Revolution since nothing the user creates is actually  
"running" most of the time.)

For that reason alone I rely heavily on globals. I would only use  
script local variables for temporary variables that only need to live  
while the script runs. For any serious application which makes heavy  
use of variables, globals are almost the defacto storage medium. I can  
see how it would be a real problem for a complex application to bog  
down when debugging.

Bob Sneidar
IT Manager
Logos Management
Calvary Chapel CM

On Dec 10, 2008, at 2:44 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote:

> Another might be to reconsider the need for such globals, perhaps  
> opting
> for script-local variables for those values only needed by a single  
> script.