Re: making user definable variables really global

Derek Robert Price <[email protected]> Mon, 16 Jun 2003 14:02:10 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.comp.tex.texi2html.devel
Organization Ximbiot <http://ximbiot.com>
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Dumas Patrice wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I am struggling with the singular manual, and it appears that if there is
>a my variable in the texi2html script, the value cannot be overwrited
>by a required file (that is quite logical as the scope of the variable is 
>then the script file). Thus I am going to remove lots of my for variables in
>texi2html.init and make these variables global (which is hurting me 
>inside, after all the my variables I did ;-).
>
>If somebody knows a better approach I'd be glad to hear.
>  
>

Again, how about sourcing the files into a Texi2HTML::Config package or 
the like?  I'm torn over whether the .init file should contain the 
"package Texi2HTML::Config" line or not, but it might not hurt.

Derek

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