Re: Why are people so afraid of globals?

[Antonio Vieiro <antonio@...>]

On 09/07/10 16:41, eugeny gladkih wrote:
> Antonio Vieiro<antonio@antonioshome.net>  writes:
>
> > Excuse my ignorance, but C has no namespaces and there's no problem in
> > building large applications on top of it, right?
>
> no. C requires variables being declared, Lua doesn't. that's the
> problem. just one typo and you have a nightmare

Oh, well, but you can make a typo in a local variable and start using a 
global one by accident. A good editor that syntax-highlights local vars 
in different colors may be the way to go, right?

Cheers,
Antonio