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global — Declare a global variable.
global( : : Declaration : )
The global statement can be used to declare a global variable. By declaring a variable as global the variable becomes visible to all other procedures that also declare the same variable explicitly as global.
If a variable is not explicitly declared as global inside a procedure, the variable is local within that procedure even if there is a global variable with the same name.
The parameter Declaration contains the variable declaration that consists of the optional keyword 'def', the type 'object' or 'tuple', the optional keyword 'vector' (followed by the desired dimension in round brackets), and the variable name.
Setting the type to 'object' an iconic variable is declared, by setting it to 'tuple' a control variable is declared.
The keyword 'def' allows to mark one declaration explicitly as the place where the variable is defined. In most cases this will not be necessary because in HDevelop the variable instance is created as soon as it is declared somewhere. However, if several procedures are exported to a programming language and if the procedures are not exported into one output file that contains all procedures together but into separate output files it will become necessary to mark one of the global variable declarations as the place where the variable is defined. A set of procedure export files that are linked to one library or application must contain exactly one definition of each global variable in order to avoid both undefined symbols and multiple definitions.
In the program listing, global variable declarations are displayed and must be entered without parenthesis in order to emphasize that the line is a declaration and not an executable operator. The syntax is as follows:
global [def] {object|tuple} [vector(<Dimension>)] <Variable Name>
Global variable declaration: optional keyword 'def', type, and variable name
Suggested values: 'object', 'tuple', 'def object', 'def tuple', 'object vector(1)', 'tuple vector(1)', 'def object vector(1)', 'def tuple vector(1)'
global is never executed.
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