[Tutor] scoping oddity

[Bob Gailer]

At 09:22 AM 5/7/2005, Brian van den Broek wrote:
>[snip]
>
>global will indeed fix that, yes. But, I've been lead to believe that
>one's first thought when tempted to write a global statement should be
>to reflect on whether that temptation isn't the symptom of a
>sub-optimal design. It certainly can (in my case has) lead to bugs
>when two separate bits of code both declare the same name global and
>thus each make their changes to it, after I have forgotten that I made
>both functions declare the name global.

Yes I agree. I was pondering this as I wrote my "reply". For quick and 
dirty programming global can save the day. For anything intended to be 
larger, more permanent I usually advocate use of classes.

[snip]

Bob Gailer
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