Should Au3Check Count Global Variables Declared Inside Functions?

[TheDcoder]

Good example @gil900

[czardas]

Ughh! Don't use global variables unless you have a really good reason to do so: that's my 2c. There are alternatives, such as using Static and hard coded assignments within functions. It's often much cleaner to fetch data rather than having to deal with all these strange issues.

[TheDcoder]

Yep, don't use Globals unless required... most of my Globals are settings and GUI stuff

[czardas]

I tend to pass GUI IDs (or arrays of controls) to various functions - often ByRef. Although I see the temptation to use globals in this case.

[Guest]

3 hours ago, czardas said:

I tend to pass GUI IDs (or arrays of controls) to various functions - often ByRef. Although I see the temptation to use globals in this case.

This approach, invest effort on avoiding globals is outcome of fear that it would be difficult to manage the software  (I assume).

But you have to pay attention to a certain point

in order to have a system that can grow and be more complex & dynamic  more easily , It need to know about itself.. the human brain for example is such a system and probably uses a lot of global variables.. Probably more than 80% are globals.. 

Avoid globlas is also potentially and in theory is - limit the maximum  potential complexity of the system (and I mean to what the system can do and how many features it have..)

Edited April 30, 2017 by Guest

[czardas]

Everything's just another dictionary. You can make most things easily manageable with good architecture.