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[Michael Southwell]

At 11:16 AM 9/5/2003, you wrote:
>Chris Shiflett wrote:
>
>>--- Michael Southwell <southwell at dneba.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>>why wouldn't you *always* define the parameter with & instead of
>>>using a global statement?
>>>
>>
>>Speaking personally, it depends on whether I think the parameter is closely
>>related to the function and how much data is already required to be 
>>passed in.
>>
>
>I agree-- if you have a function that updates a number of global objects 
>or variables, you don't want to force yourself to list them all as 
>arguments every time you call the function.
>
>As a further note, I always use global statements in order to make objects 
>available to the local scope, but for looking at or updating regular 
>variables I tend to use the $GLOBALS array so that the local namespace 
>doesn't get to crowded.

aha, you mean like this?

$var1="something";
$var2="something else";
function dosomething($var1){
   global $GLOBALS;
   etc.


>    csnyder
>
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