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    Question Global Variables vs. parameters

    I am working on a project, and I game across a guestion that had presented it self. I have a few variables that are used through out my project. As I have it wrote they are global variables, and it works ar wrote. However, I have heard global variable are not a good idea, except in certain instances. What I like to know is what everyone else thinks of global variables? Are they good or bad? Schould I rework my project to eliminate them? I am confident I can do this, but should I? One other thing. Does Flash have constants available? One or two of the global may work better as constants(ie. a website address). There may be pros and cons for each approach, what is the general approach? Thanks for you time. Troy

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    think of this: what if you need to find your car keys in a box filled with lots of kids toys, socks and all kinds of useless things you have at home? that's how it looks like when you have many vars in one place (e.g. global scope). now, if the only things in that box are car keys, one toy car and one sock, finding keys in there is no-brainer - similarly, having all your vars global is not a problem if you only have so much of them.
    who is this? a word of friendly advice: FFS stop using AS2

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