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Posted by Chung Leong on 05/14/06 19:18
Alan Little wrote:
> OK. When you said, "using includes as functions", I took it to mean
> having a bit of code that's called from various places in the main code,
> and putting it in an included file, rather than a function. I once had a
> date-selector generator that I did that with, but long ago converted it
> to a function. I'm not trying to be a smart@$$, I just didn't see how
> that applied to plugins.
Whether the code is included once or many times is unimportant. The key
deficencies of includes are the lack of a clear interface and the lack
of variable scoping. For your plug-ins, how are the authors supposed to
know what variables are available? I mean their code would just inherit
the entire global scope. How do you prevent them from accidently
overwriting variables?
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