2017-01-12 If you use the global namespace (for which I can understand the reasons), do not flood it blindly! If you use it, then struc- ture, i.e. group the data you put there and try to only access it through ``setter'' and ``getter'' methods. We shouldn't tell programmers to never place data globally, but rather make them understand the implications of doing so and pos- sible techniques to lessen the problem, for that enables them to decide appropriately and justifiable in *how far* they use the global namespace. Hard rules are seldom good. Even gotos are sometimes the best possible solution (usually for some kind of weird problem), but they are so only if one is able to *understand* all implications and is able to argue well for that solution over possible others. http://marmaro.de/lue/ markus schnalke