Weirdness with global variable declaration

[Richard Gaskin]

Dar Scott wrote:

> 
> On Monday, January 19, 2004, at 12:54 AM, Doug Lerner wrote:
> 
>>>> If those commands are *outside* of a handler, exactly when do they
>>>> actually
>>>> get executed?
>>> 
>>> Those are called commands, but I think of them as declarations, that
>>> is, information to the compiler.
>>> 
>> 
>> When do they get executed though?
>> 
>> What if there are two different value assignments in two different
>> scripts?
> 
> They don't get executed as I view them.  They just tell the compiler
> how to handle them when they come up.  They apply from that point
> onward.
> 
> global a  -- all mention of "a" after here means global
> 
> on yyy
> put 42 into a -- put 42 into global a
> end yyy


Does that work for globals?  I'd thought only locals were documented as
having this option.

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