Hi, On Tue, 2007-01-30 at 09:11 +0200, Alexander Rabtchevich wrote: > Raphaël, could you please explain me (I'm new to scheme) in a few > words, why the global variables are poor style coding?
They are simply not allowed in Scheme. > From my POV, they > can only introduce memory consumption in common case (but not in the > case of GIMP script-fu) and maybe some redefinitions in a large program > (this doesn't concern Gimp also). It does concern GIMP as all scripts live in the same namespace. A global variable defined in one script affects all other scripts. > But the inability to use global > variables along with scheme syntaxes leads to a good deal of parentheses > which could be a problem to a programmer. I don't see how this introduces the need for more parentheses. Sven _______________________________________________ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
