[REBOL] Re: Limit on Globals?
From: tim:johnsons-web at: 6-Nov-2001 14:30
On Wed, Nov 07, 2001 at 06:03:46AM +1000, Allen Kamp wrote:
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> From: "Tim Johnson" <[tim--johnsons-web--com]>
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> Sent: Wednesday, November 07, 2001 3:38 AM
> Subject: [REBOL] Limit on Globals?
>
> > Hello All:
> > I'm struggling with code bloat here<sigh>.
> > I have a large application with a significant number of global words.
> >
> > 1)Does anyone have any ideas as to what would be a reasonable limit
> > on the number of global words?
> > 2)Is there an advantage to putting global words into an object?
>
> Putting word in objects allows you to reuse those words in different
> contexts, so you don't have to keep making up new ones as you would if they
> were all global. Reusing words keeps the count down.
Aha!
Thanks Allen!
tj
> Cheers,
>
> Allen K
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