On Monday, 25 November 2013 at 09:39:14 UTC, ilya-stromberg wrote:
On Monday, 25 November 2013 at 04:35:10 UTC, Andrei
Alexandrescu wrote:
On 11/24/13 8:27 PM, Craig Dillabaugh wrote:
Would it be possible to introduce a global scope of sorts that
had to be explicitly referenced when one wanted to define or
use
a global variable. I haven't thought of how this might
interface
with other D features, but something along the lines of:
@global int my_gobal_var; //Gets added to global scope.
//Then any globals would have to be referenced as:
global.my_global_var = 7;
Makes for a bit of extra typing, and would mess with any
module
named 'global', but it might work?
To put it bluntly, many things are possible but it seems the
best is to do nothing here. We're in good shape.
I personally like Craig Dillabaugh's sugestion. But we can use
`.` operator for this because it alredy used for call global
functions and, probably, should break nothing. Like this:
int my_gobal_var;
.my_global_var = 7;
Is it possible?
Sorry if I didn't explain idea properly.
We can force using `.` before global variables. Almost everybody
agree that use global variables is bad idea, so additional symbol
looks acceptable.
