From: Logan Capaldo <logancapaldo@...>
Date: 2006-03-09T10:57:02+09:00
Subject: Re: globals outside of OO scripting


On Mar 8, 2006, at 8:48 PM, rtilley wrote:

> Thanks for the examples and info guys!
>
> I'm still trying to get my head around the whole OO concept... as  
> you can probably tell :) I don't know if this is proper or not, but  
> I ended up making a constant in the class. Inside, the methods  
> could access it by name. And outside, I could access it like this  
> Class_Name::Constant
>
> Is that good or bad?
>
>
>

Depends. Why are you accessing it outside the class? If its to change  
its value, than thats probably not a good idea and that functionality  
should be put into a method. Of course if its really a constant, well  
then its ok.