On Mon, 2004-11-22 at 23:34, John Velman wrote:
> In a nutshell:
>
>I want to use the old value of a tag to compute the new value, in a
>callback,
>
>I want to access the tag from other callbacks, and
>
>I want to the value to a mutable list from within the callback.
>
On Mon, Nov 22, 2004 at 07:27:44PM +0100, Lennart Augustsson wrote:
>
[snip]
> I admit there are proper uses of global variables, but they are very
> rare. You have not convinced me you have one.
>
> -- Lennart
It's with some trepidation I bring a problem as a total newbie, but I've
been
Adrian Hey wrote:
But toplevel
things with identity (TWI) are evil as well, *especially* if they are
easy to use.
Just repeating this again and again doesn't make it any more true. Neither
you or any of the other nay-sayers have provided any evidence or credible
justification for this assertion, n
On Monday 22 November 2004 09:38, Adrian Hey wrote:
> On Friday 19 Nov 2004 2:27 pm, Benjamin Franksen wrote:
> > But toplevel
> > things with identity (TWI) are evil as well, *especially* if they are
> > easy to use.
>
> Just repeating this again and again doesn't make it any more true. Neither
>
Adrian Hey wrote:
Just repeating this again and again doesn't make it any more true.
Ditto... I for one think the best solution is to use the language as
intended and pass the values as function arguments. As pointed out
on this list - the only possible situation where you cannot do this is
when in
On Friday 19 Nov 2004 2:27 pm, Benjamin Franksen wrote:
> Implicit parameters are evil, agreed. Their deficiencies should be added
> as a warning to the docs (with many exclamation marks).
Well I dunno. Maybe whatever's currently wrong with them can be fixed up.
But I can't say they're something
