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From: knaut@schroeder (Claus-Peter Knaut)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.beta
Subject: Global Variables
Date: 07 May 1996 11:42:34 +0200
Organization: University of Dortmund, Germany
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Hello,

We are developing an Probabilistik Database in BETA. 
We need global variables. How do you manage to use them. You can not
place them in lib: attributes because there you can define no static
objects.

We manage it by placeing all beta-code in one main.bet. And only
main.bet links to betaenv.bet. There we can define a global variable
and use it in all code below main.bet. But that seems not the right
way.

We think of using the objpool.get method, but then we will have to
place it everywhere where we need a global variable. And we don`t know
how fast this .get is, but we have time-sensitive code there.

How do you do it ?

CP

knaut@ls6.informatik.uni-dortmund.de