From: ara.t.howard@...
Date: 2006-03-09T06:46:47+09:00
Subject: Re: globals outside of OO scripting

On Thu, 9 Mar 2006, rtilley wrote:

> When writing methods as functions (I know they're methods pretending to be 
> functions) do you still need to use globals... like this:
>
> $global_var
> def some_other_function
>   ...
>   $global_var
> end
>
> Or, is it OK to use them like this:
>
> global_var
> def some_other_function
>   ...
>   global_var
> end

but why?  at the very least do

   class Main
     def initialize
       @foo = 42
     end
     def run
       p @foo
     end
   end

   Main::new unless $0 == __FILE__

save the namespaces!  ;-)

-a

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