Re: [Ocaml-lib-devel] Way to 1.0

[John M. S. <sk...@oz...>]

Nicolas Cannasse wrote:


> Of course in OCaml you can always have some globals being locals.
> But for example, sometimes you have quite a deep-called function that
> actually needs one variable that is only known 5 or 6 functions up in the
> call stack. Adding an extra argument to all the intermediate functions even
> if they don't use it can be done once, perhaps twice but definitly not three
> times :-) Sometimes when you having something like this it's usefull to use
> something like globals . If you look at the sources of the ocaml compiler,
> there is a lot of such samples.

Globals are EVIL

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