Re: making user definable variables really global

Adrian Aichner <[email protected]> Tue, 17 Jun 2003 17:16:33 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.comp.tex.texi2html.devel
Organization Teradyne, Inc. -- Consumer Business Unit
Message-ID <[email protected]>
>>>>> "Derek" == Derek Robert Price <[email protected]> writes:

    Derek> Adrian Aichner wrote:
    >>>>>>> "Derek" == Derek Robert Price <[email protected]> writes:
    >>>>>>> 
    >>>>>>> 
    >> 
    >> Hi Derek!
    >> 
    >> Here's what I use lately for most of my configurable perl scripts,
    >> demonstrated by example.
    >> 
    >> I think it's wonderful to be able to migrate to an init file by
    >> dumping even a complex perl data structure and reading (a possibly
    >> modified) perl data structure for initialization.
    >> 
    >> Just a thought.
    >> 
    >> Adrian
    >> 
    >> 

    Derek> This is reasonable, but I don't think we need to be
    Derek> concerned with saving at this point.  Just allowing users
    Derek> to write them by hand and loading the configs.

Saving a known working default data structure is good way to bootstrap
the configuration file, though.

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