[Swift-devel] More OOPS feature requests

[Ben Clifford]

On Wed, 15 Apr 2009, Michael Wilde wrote:

> - handling long in/out file lists via a file to wrapper when they get to long
> (already offered on the list by Ben, so this seems doable. Should I file an
> bugzilla req for this?)

file an enahncement request in bugzilla for this. i think its 
straightforward.

> - global variables: are these feasible and/or desirable in oops?
> 
> The motivation for this particular case was to fetch the @arg values (4 to 6
> now, but growing) all in the "main" proc, but have their values available to
> several levels of deeper proc calls, without passing all the values down all
> the way.

That has bothered me in the past too. I think its fine to do - it doesn't 
introduce the ickiness that global variable do because they're single 
assignment (so really, global constants)


file an enahnement request for that too


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