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Global variables versus local variables
Author(s) -
Fisher D. L.
Publication year - 1983
Publication title -
software: practice and experience
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.437
H-Index - 70
eISSN - 1097-024X
pISSN - 0038-0644
DOI - 10.1002/spe.4380130508
Subject(s) - variables , point (geometry) , variable (mathematics) , computer science , econometrics , mathematical economics , mathematics , statistics , mathematical analysis , geometry
Much modern programming theory places emphasis on the localization of the use of program variables and only occasionally justifies the use of global variables. This paper does not support that point of view. In fact it advocates exactly the reverse.