Re: Poll: global buffers

From: George Greer (greerga@circlemud.org)
Date: 07/20/01


On Fri, 20 Jul 2001, Thomas Jones wrote:

>George Greer wrote:
>
>>Who thinks the global buffers (buf, buf1, buf2, arg) need to go?
>>Who wants to keep them?
>>and why?
>>
>>I'm curious.

>I'm not very experienced at Circle coding yet, but as I rule I HATE
>global anything.  I do use them sometimes but I hate them none the less.

Oh, why? What's wrong with global variables in your opinion?

Not that I'm encouraging anything, but I'm interested in knowing why.

--
George Greer
greerga@circlemud.org

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