[AccessD] Using Global Connctions

StaRKeY StaRKeY at Wanadoo.nl
Fri Mar 14 15:36:00 CST 2003


Must be his period...;-)

-----Original Message-----
From: accessd-admin at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:accessd-admin at databaseadvisors.com]On Behalf Of Charlotte Foust
Sent: vrijdag 14 maart 2003 22:22 
To: accessd at databaseadvisors.com
Subject: RE: [AccessD] Using Global Connctions


It's more like JC mellowed out by fatherhood ... Or maybe too exhausted
to rant today! <VBG>

Charlotte Foust

-----Original Message-----
From: William Hindman [mailto:wdhindman at bellsouth.net] 
Sent: Friday, March 14, 2003 1:15 PM
To: accessd at databaseadvisors.com
Subject: Re: [AccessD] Using Global Connctions


...uh oh ...better check up on my end-times insurance ...JC not in a
ranting mood is a sure sign of their coming :(

William Hindman
"And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you -
ask what you can do for your country. My fellow citizens of the world:
ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for
the freedom of man." John F. Kennedy, 1961

----- Original Message -----
From: "John W. Colby" <jcolby at colbyconsulting.com>
To: <accessd at databaseadvisors.com>
Sent: Friday, March 14, 2003 3:33 PM
Subject: RE: [AccessD] Using Global Connctions


> I already spoke up on the issue.  Not in the Ranting mood at the 
> moment.
>
> John W. Colby
> Colby Consulting
> www.ColbyConsulting.com
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: accessd-admin at databaseadvisors.com
> [mailto:accessd-admin at databaseadvisors.com]On Behalf Of William 
> Hindman
> Sent: Friday, March 14, 2003 3:17 PM
> To: accessd at databaseadvisors.com
> Subject: Re: [AccessD] Using Global Connctions
>
>
> ...ok guys ...is it going to be swords or pistols ...and where the 
> hell is JC when a definitive rant is needed?
>
> William Hindman
> "And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you

> -
ask
> what you can do for your country. My fellow citizens of the world: ask

> not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the 
> freedom
of
> man." John F. Kennedy, 1961
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Marcus, Scott (GEAE, RHI Consulting)" <scott.marcus at ae.ge.com>
> To: <accessd at databaseadvisors.com>
> Sent: Friday, March 14, 2003 2:49 PM
> Subject: RE: [AccessD] Using Global Connctions
>
>
> > So you are saying that they are needed more than rarely? Any project

> > I
> work on
> > is a judgment call on how the project needs to progress. I'm saying
using
> them
> > more than rarely is bad judgment and hense sloppy programming.
> >
> > Scott Marcus
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Drew Wutka [mailto:DWUTKA at marlow.com]
> > Sent: Friday, March 14, 2003 1:04 PM
> > To: 'accessd at databaseadvisors.com'
> > Subject: RE: [AccessD] Using Global Connctions
> >
> >
> > Absolutely not true.  Saying that Globals are rarely needed is a
judgement
> > call, based solely on your own experiences.
> >
> > Drew
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Marcus, Scott (GEAE, RHI Consulting) 
> > [mailto:scott.marcus at ae.ge.com]
> > Sent: Friday, March 14, 2003 6:29 AM
> > To: 'accessd at databaseadvisors.com'
> > Subject: RE: [AccessD] Using Global Connctions
> >
> >
> > "Global variables should be used where they need to be used, no 
> > more, no less"... well 'duh' but it doesn't make it "crystal clear".

> > If I
knowingly
> > use a
> > hammer when a screwdriver is needed (and I have a screwdriver), I 
> > would
be
> a
> > pretty stupid person. On the same token, those who abuse global
variables
> > think
> > they are needed in their case, otherwise they would not be using 
> > them.
Why
> > program something when it isn't needed? The fact is, global 
> > variables
are
> > rarely
> > needed and should be rarely used. That's crystal clear.
> >
> > Scott
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Gustav Brock [mailto:gustav at cactus.dk]
> > Sent: Friday, March 14, 2003 5:55 AM
> > To: Drew Wutka
> > Subject: Re: [AccessD] Using Global Connctions
> >
> >
> > Hi Drew
> >
> > > Globals are just the broadest scope that you can have on a 
> > > variable.
> You
> > > have procedural, modular, and global variables.  Global variables
should
> > be
> > > used where they need to be used, no more, no less.
> >
> > This crystal clear statement should be assimilated by everyone. 
> > Thanks Drew!
> >
> > /gustav
> >
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