Re: [dev] Local vs global variables

On Fri, Nov 06, 2009 at 06:34:25PM +0100, QUINTIN Guillaume wrote:
>Someone just told me that, when writing C code, one should NOT use ANY
>global variables. He did not tell me to use global variables as few as
>possible, he did tell me to use ABSOLUTELY NO global variables in any
>kind of C code (single program, library, OS kernel, any kind there is
>...)
>
>What do you think about that ?

I'd say that he's the kind of teetotaling fundamentalist that
you can safely ignore.

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Kris Maglione
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they die fighting each other, instead of their real enemies back home
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