[AccessD] Global Vars (was Ambiguous Name)

I'm not totally against them, but lately I've been tending towards the
Public Property,
the value of which can be easily traced/debugged.
Interestingly, MZTOOLZ has a function to do just that: convert globals to
properties.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-
> bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Jim Dettman
> Sent: Tuesday, September 20, 2011 12:27 PM
> To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving'
> Subject: Re: [AccessD] Global Vars (was Ambiguous Name)
>
> Mark,
>
>   You should have quoted the second paragraph as well:
>
> "This narrow-minded attitude of mine can create difficulties when
> trying to
> share data between forms in a single application."
>
>   He goes on to say there are lot's of solutions to that problem (which
> is
> true), but that doesn't apply that global's should not be used or do
> not
> have a place in Access development.
>
> Jim.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
> [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Mark Simms
> Sent: Tuesday, September 20, 2011 11:46 AM
> To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving'
> Subject: Re: [AccessD] Global Vars (was Ambiguous Name)
>
> Au Contraire....use sparingly at best:
> www.vb123.com/smart/fp/1998-05.pdf
> "they dramatically increase the costs of
> maintaining an application. After all, when you find a bad value in a
> global
> variable, that value could have been placed in the variable from any
> routine
> in the application. Thats a lot of code to debug"
>
> >
> > Nothing wrong with global variables.
> > Trouble is always located at those handling these (the programmer!).
> >
>
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