[AccessD] Ambiguous Name

Steve Goodhall steve at goodhall.info
Tue Sep 20 12:02:07 CDT 2011


By definition, that's a class variable not a global.

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From: Jim Dettman <jimdettman at verizon.net>
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Sent: Tue, Sep 20, 2011 16:42:42 GMT+00:00
Subject: Re: [AccessD] Ambiguous Name

Steve,

  I should have said that this code exists in a standard module. objcurDB
has been declared private to limit the scope to the module, but it's still a
global variable, which could be accessed by any procedure in that module.

Jim.

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[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Steve Goodhall
Sent: Tuesday, September 20, 2011 12:30 PM
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Subject: Re: [AccessD] Ambiguous Name

I don't see global in this example.

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-----Original message-----
From: Jim Dettman <jimdettman at verizon.net>
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Sent: Tue, Sep 20, 2011 16:25:09 GMT+00:00
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There is nothing wrong with using a global variable like this:

Private objcurDB As DAO.Database

Public Function CurDb(Optional bolRefresh As Boolean = False) As
DAO.Database

 If objcurDB Is Nothing Or bolRefresh = True Then
    Set objcurDB = CurrentDb()
 End If
 
 Set CurDb = objcurDB

End Function


 And even if you did define it public, so what?  It's not like it would be
hard to spot where it's used.

Jim. 

-----Original Message-----
From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Steve Goodhall
Sent: Tuesday, September 20, 2011 12:17 PM
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Subject: Re: [AccessD] Ambiguous Name

I can't agree.  Global variables break the whole model of structured  
programming.  In many ways they are worse than goto statements.

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-----Original message-----
From: Gustav Brock <Gustav at cactus.dk>
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Sent: Tue, Sep 20, 2011 14:51:24 GMT+00:00
Subject: Re: [AccessD] Ambiguous Name

Hi Steve

Nothing wrong with global variables. 
Trouble is always located at those handling these (the programmer!).

/gustav


>>> steve at goodhall.info 20-09-2011 01:33:24 >>>
Yet another reason to never use global variables.

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[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Ralf Lister
Sent: Monday, September 19, 2011 5:19 PM
To: accessd at databaseadvisors.com 
Subject: [AccessD] Ambiguous Name

Hello all,

I work with Access 2007.

Lately I ran into a problem I don't know how to solve: By running the code I
got an error message "Ambiguous Name was detected: gsngAportesSR" ("Se ha
detectado un nombre ambiguo: gsngAportesSR"). I searched the whole code
looking for gsngAportes defined by two different data types (e.g. Public
gsngAportesSR As Single, and then also Public gsngAportesSR As Integer), but
without success.

Does anyone of you know how to fix this problem?

I should say that gsngAportesSR is a global variable with data type Single.

Thanks and Saludos
Ralf Lister
La Paz, Bolivia


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