From: Rick DeNatale <rick.denatale@...>
Date: 2007-10-03T20:59:33+09:00
Subject: Re: File scope variable

On 10/3/07, Martin Martinos <chabotm@yahoo.com> wrote:
> There are at least one
> built-in variable that is local to the current file and it's the
> __FILE__ variable.  In fact in my require function I would use a local
> variable that tells me what is the current file folder path.  I would
> also use it to localize the path of the binary files that my script
> uses. I don't think in that case its a bad idea since __FILE__ has also
> a file scope.

Well, it's not that __FILE__ has a file scope, it's that it is a
pseudovariable which is magically set to the current file name.

If you really need to do this, maybe a hash keyed by __FILE__ sort of
like a file-local  as an analogy to a thread local variable.

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Rick DeNatale

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