Global Variables are preferable to the Globals functional - so there! :-)

I feel a little controversial today so forgive the brutal title of this post

I've never used global variables because I was under the misconception that they are somehow 'bad '. That's all I've heard since I started learning the LabVIEW. Review the code in the nets upconvert and downconvert. The ugliest code uses globals and some of the most beautiful code does not work. This means that bad programmers use global variables and globals are so bad programming practice. This is not true. Globals are just easy to use for newbies to use them. ' Not initialized what? I can't find those on the pallette? »

I think I always wondered unconsciously that globals are bad. They are not bad, it is their use that may be bad. This is true for anything in life.

The first and the most obvious problem with global variables is racing conditions. But this is not strictly the overall causing the race condition. This is the data stream is not defined.

But the same is true if functional a global being misused. In the example below there is nothing to enforce data streams.

You must run the data flow with a thread of error for example.

Globals do not have a thread of error but not fear - the man of the sequence is here!

You only need the sequence if the global is directly on your drawing. These two structures of single image sequence could be replaced by a NumericWrite.vi and a NumericRead.vi containing nothing but overall, a command or the indicator respectively and the terminals of the error. Put it online and it is good as gold. Or you might have a Subvi containing nothing but a frame two cases selected by an enumeration containing the elements 'Get' and 'Set '. Now, it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck. Don't you worry by the overhead of the structure of the case either. If the enum is a constant, it will be unfolded.

Another problem with globals, it's that they are, well, global. Is not different from a functional overall, so it isn't really a problem anyway. Globals and globals functional it is easily taken by placing them in a library and define the scope of the access. Not to mention that libraries give you namespaces and "namespaces are one honking great idea - do several of these!" *

The real reason to use a global rather than a functional overall is that they are about twice as fast.

Until this morning I would have recommended to use a more functional global overall. But I changed my mind. Someone can it change back?

* The Zen of Python


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