I understand now, at first I understood it worked in quite the opposite way. It must be a limit of mine: I remeber how I clumsly stumbled in this ::request::global thing when I first met it.
It's ok, +1 definetely because adds a value also in term of coding style to adopt with Rivet. Don't forget to write a manual page with an example. -- Massimo On Fri, 10 Sep 2010 10:30:21 -0500, Damon Courtney wrote > Basically, reqvar means to give me a "global" variable for this > request only. It basically does: > > namespace upvar ::request foo foo > > So you get your variable locally, but it's coming from the ::request > namespace. It will get cleaned up along with the namespace when the > request is complete. If you want a TRULY global variable, meaning > one that will actually persist between instances, you would use the > global command or the variable command within your own namespace. > > reqvar is just a way to say "Give me a variable for this request only". > > Damon > -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
