stackfiles

[Richard Gaskin]

Bob Sneidar wrote:

 > On Aug 9, 2018, at 11:45 , Richard Gaskin wrote:
 > Yes, the stackFiles property is every bit as global as any other use
 > of stack names.
 >
 > Not to belabor the point, but the stackfiles is a property of a STACK,
 > not a global system property.

A stack's name is also a property of a stack, but anything involving 
stack names has global effects.

The stackFiles property allows us to use the short name of a stack file 
to easily access that stack.

Once the stack with the stackFiles list is loaded, all those references 
are loaded with it.  The same mechanism that allows scripts in that 
stack to call other stacks by short name allow any other scripts 
anywhere else to use that same name, because stack names have global 
effects.

Besides, even if you had two stacks whose stackFiles had the same stack 
short name assigned to different stackFiles, one of them wouldn't work 
anyway because as soon as it tried you'd get a stack name conflict warning.

Simpler to just remember that stack names have global scope, then you 
can plan accordingly with consistent simplicity.

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