****SPAM(11.2)**** [Tutor] Larger program organization

[Terry Carroll]

On Fri, 11 Feb 2005, Bob Gailer wrote:

> Whenever you find yourself writing an if statement ask whether this
> would be better handled by subclasses. Whenever you find yourself about
> to write a global statement, consider making the variables properties of
> a class.

Bob -- 

Brian already asked for an explanation of your first statement, and I 
found the ensuing discussion very instructive.

Can you explain the second?  As an aesthetic point, I hate globals, and 
I'd love a discussion with some examples of using class variables as a way 
of avoiding this.

Terry