Re: [Haskell-cafe] global variables

Jason Dagit wrote:

On 5/17/07, Adrian Hey wrote:

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Jules Bean wrote:

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BTW, this is the commonly the subject of flame wars on the Haskell mailing lists because there appear to be many who passionately believe and assert that so called "global variables" are (at best) unnecessary and (at worst) are "evil". These people are quite simply wrong and should be ignored :-)

For the record, there are also a few who do not believe that global variables even exist. A best case scenario to save the term requires that you can prove the finite bounds of our physical universe. Generally, those same people also believe that it is this oversight of both parties that ensures that the so-called "flame war" persists, since declaring something "global" also requires a declaration of the domain of discourse, which is decided arbitrarily and shifts many times throughout any real attempt to resolve the issue. Ever heard the phrase, "of course it works! it works on my machine!"? Tony Morris http://tmorris.net/