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  3. March 2008

Re: subroutines are bug factories was: Classic Traps -- I need your input!

Alan Campin wrote:
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I have ran into this problem also and the way I deal with it today is to
always name any global variable to start with a "g_" so g_Anchor,
g_Tail, etc. Just saves a lot of hassles. ...

To extend that idea, global files should all be defined with PREFIX(g_) so that the global fields associated with the file have the g_ prefix.

That would solve the problem I just posted about where you can run into problems if you define local fields that happen to have the same names as the global fields that come from files coded on F specs.


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