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On 11/11/2010 10:21 AM, Nathan Andelin wrote:
To me a global declaration would be something that might be shared
across an entire activation group, which might include any number of
programs and service programs in a call stack.

To me, a global declaration would be something that's shared across the entire globe. Maybe I'm weird :)

Seriously, though, following your line of thinking, stuff that's scoped to the activation group should be called "activation-group-level", and stuff scoped to the job should be "job-level".

Indeed, I've recently been in a conversation about environment variables being scoped to the job (rather than system-wide as someone else thought.)

IMHO, when we use the term "global" it's not intended to be specific. It just means "a wide scope" (and "wide" is a relative term!) When we want to be more precise, we should mention the scope level, such as "procedure-level", "job-level", "module-level", "actgrp-level", etc.

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