Re: Why are people so afraid of globals?

[steve donovan <steve.j.donovan@...>]

On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 6:32 PM, Mark Hamburg <mark@grubmah.com> wrote:
>        function say_hello()
>                global print
>                print( "Hello" )
>        end

Which is how it works in Python, AFAIK.  This does have the virtue of
making functions more self-contained and not reliant on a 'local print
= print' somewhere near the top of the module.

steve d.