Re: global variables

Dumas Patrice wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I finished making variables lexically scoped. There are sill some global
>variables. For some it is because they are shared by code in texi2html.init.
>

Great!  Perhaps the init file stuff could be hidden in a 
Texi2HTML::Config or something, like CPAN does?

>I left %l2h_img because I haven't understood what is the real scope of this 
>variable.
>
>I left the others because they may be changes by users, and set in an init 
>file. However I am no certain that this is a good idea for all those variables
>(and maybe even none !). Here is the list, could you please verify ?
>
>            $complex_format_map
>            $index_properties
>            %accent_map
>            %def_map
>            %format_map
>            %predefined_index
>            %simple_map
>            %style_map
>            %things_map
>            %to_skip
>            %user_sub
>            %valid_index
>            %sec2level
>

I don't know enough about these to tell you off the top of my head.

>Maybe it would be nice to have examples of init files showing what variables
>are redefined. It could also be worth introducing tests with init files.
>Does anybody here use such files ? For example I am very impressed by the 
>example given in the manual (http://www.singular.uni-kl.de/Manual/html/). 
>I believe Olaf Bachmann did the init file ? 
>

Where was the example of an init file?  What should I be looking for? 
 The buttons & such?

Derek

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