Mark Stuart wrote:
Again, my point exactly. You HAVE to declare the global again, and again where needed.
The difference may be that in other languages you are generally working in a self-contained environment. Your globals will never interfere with anyone else's variable names.
In LiveCode each stack is more of an independent entity sharing space with other entities. Suppose your stack declares a global and my stack happens to use the same variable name in a handler. With the current system, if my own script never declares your global there's no problem. My variable names remain local to my handler or my script. With explicitVariables turned off, and using your system where I don't have to declare the global, my handlers would end up using your values. If explicitVariables was turned on, my script wouldn't compile.
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