Re: Paasing global variables to functions

Alipha wrote on 28/07/05 :
ankisharma@xxxxxxxxx wrote: 
     At many places I have seen that programmers pass global variables
to functions in c. I am not able to figure out why they do so. need
some clues on this. somewhere i heard that this philosophy is from
object orieted world but is it applicable for c?


for instance, the function is called multiple times with different
arguments than that specific global variable. eg:

f(myglobal);
f(mylocal);
f(myglobal2);


Huh! Yes!

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