1 Sep
2008
1 Sep
'08
9:45 p.m.
On Mon, 1 Sep 2008, Adrian Hey wrote:
Actually all this use of the tainted and derogatory term "global variable" is causing me to be imprecise. All MVars/IORefs have "global" main/process scope whether or not they're bound to something at the top level.
"Global variable" is exactly the right term to use, if we are following the terminology of other languages. We don't call the result of malloc/new etc a "global variable", unless it is assigned to something with top-level scope. Ganesh