Unpopularity of global variables - why?

[Richard Gaskin]

Monte Goulding wrote:

 > On 16/10/2012, at 6:21 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
 >
 >> If any script attempts to get or set a custom property while
 >> the lockMessages is true, any getProp or setProp messages won't
 >> be triggered.
 >>
 >> If such handlers are necessary for execution unexpected behaviors
 >> will occur, and given the nature of such scripts tracking down
 >> the cause of the errant behavior can be tricky and time-consuming.
 >
 >
 > Do you consider this a bug in lockMessages? Perhaps set and getProps
 > should be able to be marked in some way that they are required. I
 > guess changing the behavior of lockMessages could cause issues.

Agreed.  But I like the idea of having a way to change that.

Since the issue is specific to getProp and setProp, maybe there might be 
a way to declare those as "required", e.g.:

required getProp MyProp

This would keep such a change optional, and limit its scope to only 
those getProp and setProp handlers that are essential, since sometimes 
it may be useful to have them suppressed by lockMessages.

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