MartinRinehart Wrote:
> More seriously, I can and do use lots of globals. In the tokenizer I'm > writing, for example, all the token types(COMMENT_EOL = 0, > CONSTANT_INTEGER = 1, ...) are global constants. The text to be > tokenized is a global variable. (Actually, the text is unchanging once > the Tok object is created, so this "variable" may be another > constant.) Passing global constants to functions is a case of CPU > abuse. > > Structured purists gave globals a bad rap, years ago. Time to stick up > for them. They're good citizens. Don't blame them if some dumb coder > abuses them. It's not their fault. *grin* It is good to see that I am not the only person in the squad who hears the beat of this drum. I wonder if you have some COBOL data divisions under your belt? - Hendrik -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
