Re: avoiding huge globals files
Posted in 1996
Mark D. Stock wrote: > > Rudy Fernandes wrote: > I'm not suggesting that all variables must be globals, or local. But when > values are to be shared, globals will give better performance, and less > headaches for maintenance. I have had to debug other peoples programs > where they passed strings from one function to the next to the next, etc. > They wanted to know why they were getting error -4518, I said I didn't > know but use globals and it will go away. ;-) > And I forget what the error number is, but the one about running out of temp string space keeps coming up for me unless I change the string parameters to globals. Usually in the debugger. And following Murphy's Law, usually near a critical break point. Douglas Wilson