About variable.

[Frank D. Engel, Jr.]

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I generally use the stack for that sort of thing...

Saves me the trouble of creating an extra object, and it's readily 
visible from every control on card.

On Mar 31, 2005, at 4:25 PM, Marty Billingsley wrote:

> Frank D. Engel, Jr. wrote:
>
>> When would you have to use a global variable, in so far as something
>> cannot be accomplished with a custom property?
>
> When you don't want to create an object simply to hold a custom
> property.  For example, if I'm making a quiz to use with students,
> I keep their score in a global variable.  If I wanted to use a
> custom property I'd have to create an object just for that purpose.
> Seems counter-intuitive to me.
>
> Plus, as has been pointed out, it's sooooo easy just to say:
>   global gScore
>   add 1 to gScore
>
> Custom properties are a little more convoluted.
>
>   - marty
>
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