Raphaël, this IS exactly my point! Why should the global variables be prohibited if there is no difference in memory consumption with local ones, only additional efforts to a programmer to track all parenthesis. The common namespace is the other problem - it is due the luck of interpreter usage or implementation, not the language itself.
> > Also, does it make sense to worry about leaving a variable and its context > in memory for a little while when this variable only takes a few bytes and > the data that you are manipulating is several orders of magnitude larger? > Keeping an integer and its context on the stack means almost nothing in > comparison with the megabytes of image data that the script is processing. > > -Raphaël > _______________________________________________ -- With respect Alexander Rabtchevich _______________________________________________ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
