On 18/10/2012 19:45, Richard Gaskin wrote:
IIRC, explicitvars were seen as too cumbersome to work with, since as a truly global property the required that EVERYTHING you're using comply with it, and too many plugins didn't.
I don't think the problem was with plugins, so much as the basic IDE. And as one of those in the let-the-compiler-help-me camp, I spent some time years ago trying to persuade RunRev to invest the effort in making the IDE explicitVars-clean, so that we could then safely switch it on for ourselves.
In the end they implemented the cunning hack round the script editor instead, which gave us that ability and indeed something better... but dodged the issue of cleaning up the IDE. I remain convinced that if RR did put the time in to make the IDE ev-clean, they would in the process fix at least a few bugs. But I can't actually pretend that it should be a priority for their overstretched team now (good introductory job for a new hire, perhaps?)
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