On 6 June 2011 18:35, Basile Starynkevitch wrote: > > This is why I thought that "modularization" is a distant goal: in my > very naive opinion, it would mean removing important global data like > lang_hook, and I still believe that such a patch would be very big: one > can't remove that variable lang_hook -replacing it by some data > structure allocated or initialized suitably, which is not a global > variable- incrementally (and replace it by some data passed somehow).
Of course it can be done incrementally. You change some functions to be passed that variable as a parameter, and change their callers to pass the global lang_hook. Then you do that incrementally, making more and more functions use a function parameter instead of accessing the global. You leave the global in place until no more functions use it. Then you remove it.
