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    18-Nov-87 21:47:02
Fm: Richard Bielak 75716,352
To: Erv Thompson 70567,523
Erv, you can always put global variables in definition modules. Then they will be accessible to everyone. However, after programming for many years I've come to the conclusion that GLOBAL VARIABLES ARE EVIL!!! So, they should be avoided. I know it's impossible to program without ANY globals, but then it's impossible to avoid all evil. One of my quick measures to judge quality of a program is to see if it has a global variable named "i" – such programs are in very poor style… …Richie