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Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 15:09:21 +0200
From: Sylvain Wallez <sylvain@apache.org>
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Subject: Re: Locking the JS global scope to avoid implicit declarations
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Carsten Ziegeler wrote:

>This might be a dump question, but I thought that global variables
>are attached to the session of the current user. Is this wrong or
>are there different kinds of global variables?
>  
>

Yes, the "global" scope in flowscript is attached to the session. That 
means implicitely declared variables are shared by all continuations of 
a given user instead of being local to a continuation. Things would be 
even worse if the global scope was unique to the application!!

Sylvain

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