[Gimp-developer] changes in script-fu in 2.3.14

Simon Budig simon at budig.de
Tue Jan 30 08:26:20 PST 2007


Alexander Rabtchevich (alexander.v.rabtchevich at iaph.bas-net.by) wrote:
> Raphaël, this IS exactly my point! Why should the global variables be 
> prohibited if there is no difference in memory consumption with local 
> ones, only additional efforts to a programmer to track all parenthesis.

Because global variables are not allowed in scheme and global variables
are bad programming practice anyway (in basically all programming
languages). And misuse can do great harm - we've seen that.

Bye,
        Simon


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