Re: Using Global Variables

[munnari.oz.au!ariel!ucsvc.ucs.unimelb.edu.au!phillip.edu.au!x01233@uunet.]

In article <1992Sep21.203114.17199@seas.gwu.edu>, mfeldman@seas.gwu.edu (Michae
l Feldman) writes:
> In article <1992Sep21.165108.11129@software.org> smithd@software.org (Doug Sm
ith) writes:
>>
>>	[Discussion of what is a global variable...]
>>
> (1)
>>    package Contains_Global is
>>       Global_Variable : Integer;
>>    end Contains_Global;
>>
> (2)
>>   package body Convert_Global is
>>      Is_This_A_Global_Variable : Integer; ----------- What do you say?
>>
>>[...]--let's try to define the term `Global'
>>first!  What is the Integer declared inside the package body?
> 
> This thread has been referring, I think, to the example in (1). The
> "locally global" variable in (2) is almost unavoidable in Ada, for
  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

One of my students last year referred to "locally global" variables as

      _REGIONAL_ variables. Seems like a good name to me!


Dale Stanbrough
RMIT
Melbourne Australia
dale@phillip.edu.au