On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 12:09:48PM -0800, Alan Stewart wrote: > If the user wants system wide defaults, he/she sets SYS_PAR_xxx before running PAR > apps. The static.c or unspawned main.c/par.pl starts by deleting PAR_xxx and setting > them to any SYS_PAR_xxx, ignoring the incoming PAR_xxx. The rest of the code is > unchanged, including any user PAR scripts that have been written to look at PAR_xxx > variables already.
That is indeed a better idea. But I think the name should be PAR_GLOBAL_TEMP and PAR_GLOBAL_CLEAN, in analogy to Perl's CORE::GLOBAL::* variables. > Less patching, but whaddya think? I think go for it. :-) Thanks, /Autrijus/
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