From: rtilley <rtilley@...>
Date: 2006-03-09T06:53:42+09:00
Subject: Re: globals outside of OO scripting

Bernhard 'elven' Stoeckner wrote:
> 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
> 
> 
> No, you still need to use either global or instance variable syntax, since
> it is, as you correctly state, still a class.

OK, but the script works wheter I use $ for globals and @ for instance 
variables or not. With small scripts, why does it matter?