[R] (Newbie)Basic Basic global vs. local variables

[Alberto Monteiro]

Jim Holtman wrote:
>
> The following will work, but I would suggest that you redesign your
> functions so that they do not use 'globals';  It is not nice for functions
> to have side-effects.
> 
Globals are Evil, but, like goto, sometimes they can make a big
program become simpler. I don't see a nice alternative to globals
when I have a huge database where a lot of different functions
read and write.

But maybe this is ideology/religion/politics...

Alberto Monteiro