Why some people say Local Variables are bad...

[altenbach]

hhhmmm!!!!

And that's only part of the code! (spotted here)

Message Edited by altenbach on 06-15-2009 08:30 PM

[altenbach]

Another one of those....

(SEEN HERE)

Message Edited by altenbach on 07-16-2009 11:51 AM

[JeanPierre]

It strangely reminds me of the variables declaration section in graphically challenged programming languages...

Maybe an inherited vestigial feature?

[Ray.R]

They think they have to define the variables.... Not realizing that the wire is the variable..  It's hard to imagine a wire in text-based language..  Even harder to explain it to a manager..

[Ray.R]

 From:  http://forums.ni.com/ni/board/message?board.id=170&thread.id=443938

The person did realize that there was Local Variable abuse.  As a matter of fact, there are a few Rube Goldbergs that could be simplified.

[Ben]

Equal to "12" is not handled.

Ben

[Ray.R]

 From: http://forums.ni.com/ni/board/message?board.id=170&thread.id=444179

[Ray.R]

Found here: http://forums.ni.com/ni/board/message?board.id=170&thread.id=451133

A little bit of abuse in here.  Nothing serious and simple to fix.  Haven't looked at the complete code, so I cannot tell if there are any race conditions. 

[Wayne.C]

Tip (ical) of the iceberg.  This app that uses hundreds of local variables and upwards of 100 global variables to boot.

Message Edited by Wayne.C on 10-27-2009 01:40 PM

[Ray.R]

Scary!

There's some Rube Goldberg as well.  Especially repeating the cluster info from the left to the cluster at the right. AND to populate data from one cluster to a bunch of Locals..  Why bother having a cluster!!