Using globals is kind of like leaving your dirty dishes in the sink. Everyone agrees it's bad, but they do it anyway.
With a bit of thought, there is almost always a good way to modularize your code. C++ makes it easy, and with C I usually end up defining a bunch of structures that are passed around. Perl makes it harder but you can do it. Cheers, -- Rod http://www.sunsetsystems.com/ On Friday 20 September 2002 11:47 am, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > ... > that's quite interesting; obviously a lot of thought went into those > ideas. > > but i can certainly imagine option 5 (data coupling) being detrimental > to code maintenance. when you look at a screen and see a thick dense > blob of code everywhere. kind of like how perl can get. as in, you're > normally black xterm background looks completely white when you don't > have your glasses on. > > to be honest with you, i asked this question because someone challanged > me to argue the point of "globals are bad". other than the 2 reasons i > gave above and the fact that it's conventional wisdom, i really can't > come up with much. i was hoping to get some ideas. > > pete _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
