Peter Haworth wrote:
I've renamed the global in the utility stack to something that's hopefully
obscure enough that it won''t clash with other stacks' globals.

I'm a big fan of Getting-It-Done-And-Moving-On solutions, and that works.

It would be nice if we could declare namespaces, and perhaps in the future we will, but for now adopting habits with naming things can pay off nicely with the setup we currently have.

I've become fond of using some identifying prefix for globals in addition to the "g", so I know where they're defined and used.

For example, I'm currently updating a library for server data store management called libDChunk (the storage scheme is called "Document Chunkadelic" - long story), so the globals it uses are prefixed with "gdc", e.g., "gdcUserInfoA".

Now that I think of it, it may be worth mentioning that trailing capital "A" - I got that idea from Sarah Reichelt, who uses it to distinguish arrays.

If you're really into this sort of curmudgeonly obsessive naming stuff, this article is full of it:
<http://www.fourthworld.com/embassy/articles/scriptstyle.html>

:)

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