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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: An Ethics Question
Keywords: global variables
Message-ID: <10001@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 7 Apr 89 04:36:15 GMT
References: <1819@uop.edu>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <1819@uop.edu> jeff@uop.edu (Jeff Ferguson) writes:
>Global variables or passed parameters?

Structured programming methodology argues for parameters.
There are some applications for which this can get horribly
out of hand, so rather than follow any rule blindly, I try
to parameterize unless it is obviously going to cause a problem.