Anthony or Uli: ... but internally it would still be
some sort of global, even if it doesn't pollute the
scripter's namespace for globals.

Alain: I have no problem with globals that are
internal to the OpenKard application.

Anthony or Uli: Somehow I don't think the scripters
care about our namespace.

Alain: They don't care about the internal globals, but
I for one believe that the user's globals be reserved
for the user's globals. Its a small detail, granted,
but we should try to make OpenKard as coherent and as
simple as possible. Variables that the user has not
declared, some of which should be changed (or else
crash), should not be accessible to the user.

Anthony or Uli: OTOH we could add UNDO for images and
text into OpenKard itself, but this isn't much of a
problem. If you can copy and paste, you can implement
undo. We can do it more efficiently in OK.

Alain: Wonderful. I believe that an infinite undo/redo
feature is a major plus for OpenKard. It takes
interface forgiveness to new heights! 

Alain: And it will, besides, force us to integrate a
sophisticated backtracking system that could be
exploited for some REALLY interesting applications.
Recordability and agents come to mind. Anyone in this
group ever hear about Apple's technology demo entitled
"Open Sesame" ?
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