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When I read the question about local variables, I wonder: why is global variables the default in many(all?) languages, despite its problems? Why not having programming languages specify, that a variable shall be purposely global instead? (probably a philosophical question)..
Asked by Mespotine (37.4.251.x) on October 17 2025, 2:22pm
Reply on October 17 2025, 2:54pm (edited at October 17 2025, 2:56pm):
Many languages require you to declare variables, those typically don't have this issue. While I can't answer why it happens in general, in EEL2, it was the path of least resistance when adding function support... but in hindsight, stupid laziness. I suppose a mode in EEL2 which would be local_default() could be useful, so that you only have to declare globals, and not locals. but that would be more error prone. I guess local() and global() it is!
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Posted by Mespotine (37.4.251.x) on October 17 2025, 4:00pm:
Thnx :)
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