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Cygnus
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Posted: 5th Oct 2007 20:59 Edited at: 5th Oct 2007 21:52
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Is there a way to influence the behavior inside a function without specification in a parameter? I feel the way functions cut themselves off from the rest of the program is rather restrictive. I want to both influence external variables and allow external variables to influence my function. I mean yeah you get your one line where you can output an internal variable, but its just not enough sometimes
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Posted: 5th Oct 2007 23:08
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Hum, no posts?

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What's happened here then? I can't see any posts.

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Posted: 6th Oct 2007 13:07
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When someone on approval edits a post, that post gets resubmitted for approval.

@Cygnus,
You can use a global variable (or an array if using DBC)



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Zotoaster
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Or if using DBC, you can use DarkEDIT which supports global variables.

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Cygnus
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what is DBC? global highlights as a command but it doesn't seem to work for me. it discourages me from using functions and makes me want to just stick with subroutines.
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Cygnus
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ok, i got my global variables to work. the problem was that i would define variable x as global, but using it as a parameter overrided that.



when i changed it to this it worked


although i still don't know what DBC means
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