On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 10:41 AM, TreKing <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 7:05 AM, Doug Gordon <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> I also miss the ability to simplify life (at least as far as writing the
>> initial code is concerned) by being able to fall back on "global" variables
>> that are visible everywhere.
>>
> Well, you can, technically still use "global" variables in Java, but I
> would certainly argue that they usually complicate life, not simplify it.
>

It's all about how you use them.  For example, a static to hold a reference
on a singleton instance of a class is extremely useful and can simplify
things greatly.

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